ETA Eridanids peaksAug. 9: Full Sturgeon MoonAug. 11: The Moon and Saturn TangoAug. 11-13: Venus Joins JupiterAug. 12-13: ...

In this edition of WTOP’s monthly space feature, “What’s up in the sky?” Greg Redfern tells you how to see the moon, planets, stars and Perseid meteor shower.

Each evening throughout the month of August, we can see the planet Mars in the western sky after sunset. To find it, look for ...

This is M31, the Andromeda Galaxy. M31 is a large spiral galaxy that’s only 2.5 billion light years away from us. With a ...

Every summer, the Perseids meteor shower puts on a celestial display when fragments of space debris vaporize as they fall ...

August 2025 brings the Full Sturgeon Moon on August 9, a Venus-Jupiter conjunction on August 12 and the peak of the Perseid ...

The Kansas Wetlands Education Center (KWEC) invites the public to join its staff for a free, family-friendly meteor shower ...

It has a been an active summer in terms of meteor showers, and August is no different. How to watch the Perseids, details on the sturgeon moon.

When the moon completes the first quarter of its journey around Earth this morning at 5:41 a.m. Its 90-degree angle between ...

August brings Saturn and Neptune together, offers two shadow transits of Titan, and sees a conjunction of Venus and Jupiter.

On August 12, the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter (noted above) will be positioned such that Venus will appear bright while Jupiter takes on a golden glow. The conjunction of the moon and the planet ...

Get ready! The Perseid meteor shower is like nature's own fireworks show, and the best part is that it's totally free...no ...