astronomy

It’s fall ya’ll! Sweater weather is upon us. The beginning of the autumn season marks the end of warm summer days and the start of longer chilly nights.

A newly discovered comet is swinging through our cosmic neighborhood for the first time in more than 400 years.

The cosmic curtain rises Wednesday night with the second full moon of the month, the reason it’s considered blue.

A super blue moon will be visible Wednesday night for the first time since 2018. Here’s how you can see it in the sky.

On this Science 4 Everyone, Storm Team4 Meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller explains the types of light pollution and how it clouds D.C.’s view of the night sky.

On this Science 4 Everyone, meteorologist (and Science Teacher!) Ryan Miller shares fun facts about the meteors that streak brightly across the evening sky.

The Perseid meteor shower is one of the most intense displays of shooting stars every year

The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak this weekend. The best viewing will be from Saturday night into early Sunday morning, when viewers might be able to spot a meteor per minute.

The cosmos is offering up a double feature in August: a pair of supermoons. Catch the first show Tuesday night as the full moon rises in the southeast.

Astronomers reported Wednesday the discovery of what could be two planets sharing the same orbit around their star.

Sorry stargazers, it looks like the Northern Lights won’t be seen in most of the U.S. after all.

This week’s supermoon, also known as the Buck Moon, is set to rise on Monday.

June’s full moon, set to occur Saturday, is known as the “Strawberry Moon,” a post from the Old Farmers Almanac says. But it’s not necessarily because of the moon’s reddish color.

The observations, conducted from 2017 to 2022, will help researchers better understand how stars evolve from dust.

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest black hole in the universe, which is over 30 billion times the mass of our Sun.

There’s a special chance this week to see five planets lined up in the night sky.

There’s a special chance this week to see five planets lined up in the night sky.

An asteroid big enough to wipe out a city will zip harmlessly between Earth and the moon’s orbit this weekend. Saturday’s close encounter will offer astronomers the chance to study a space rock from just over 100,000 miles away. That’s less than half the distance from here to the moon. While asteroid flybys are common, NASA says a big one...

Perihelion — when the sun and earth are nearest each other — occurs every winter. So, why is it still so cold outside? Storm Team4 Meteorologist Ryan Miller explains.