As the nights get shorter and the evenings get cool, one brilliant star in the southern sky softly signals the beginning of autumn. It is Fomalhaut, a very bright and easily seen star in the evening ...

“What’s up in the sky?” is a recurring feature and publishes on the first of every month. You can find it on WTOP’s The Space Place. Email Greg your space questions and he might answer them in the ...

A conjunction is an astronomical event in which at least two planets – or, in this case, other celestial bodies – appear to our vantage from Earth to be close together in the sky. The trio of ...