“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 ...

Astronomers are often asked how the casual observer can distinguish planets from bright stars in the night sky. It is commonly thought, and with a certain degree of justification, that stars twinkle, ...

Ashley is an avid gamer with a passion spanning back to her early years playing on the SNES and Gameboy Color. Between tending to her farm in Harvest Moon GB, and hurling barrels with Donkey Kong, she ...

Here's how your brain might adjust to see color on another world. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The human brain is remarkably ...

During the 1240s, Richard Fishacre, a Dominican friar at Oxford University, used his knowledge of light and color to show ...

On a bright, clear day, the sky stretches above us in a brilliant shade of blue. But have you ever wondered why? The answer lies in a fascinating phenomenon known as Rayleigh scattering, discovered by ...

The cosmos has put on a show for us this spring, from the total solar eclipse in April that impacted the entire continental U.S. to the geomagnetic storm that led to northern lights in May. Next up, a ...

EVENING SKY THIS WEEK. WOW. REALLY COOL. AMAZING. BRIAN, YOU’VE BEEN UPDATING US ON THIS AS WELL. YOU KNOW, AS A PART OF YOUR FORECAST. SO WE DO HAVE GOOD CONDITIONS, RIGHT? CLEAR SKIES TONIGHT.

Mercury and the star Mebsuta are visible in the west after sunset. Mars will be very close to the star Regulus on June 16th. Comet Schwassmann-Wachmann 1 is visible in Leo with a medium to large ...