“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 full moon, nicknamed the "Corn Moon," is slated for Sunday, Sept. 7, but there are several other astronomy events to keep in mind for the month. The planet Saturn will be at its biggest and ...

The evening sky boasts two naked-eye planets. Start your night’s viewing with ruddy Mars, which lies in the west as darkness falls. It treks eastward against the backdrop of Virgo, passing 2° north of ...

• Sun rises at 6:30 a.m. and sets at 7:32 p.m. on the 1st • Sun rises at 6:57 a.m. and sets at 6:45 p.m. on the 30th Eight months after its most recent close approach to Earth back in January, Mars is ...

September evening skies have summer constellations shining overhead still dominating the western sky. All the while, the eastern sky is full of the dimmer and less obvious autumn constellations. High ...