Aug. 12-13 — Peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower. Perseids are fragments shed by comet 109P/Swift-Tuttle. Every August, ...

What’s Up for August? Jupiter and Venus shine brightly in the mornings as they appear to graze each other in the sky on the 11th and 12th. The Perseids are washed out by the Moon. The ...

In August Mars gets lost as it sinks deep into the sun’s afterglow. Meanwhile, Jupiter climbs above the predawn eastern horizon to join brilliant Venus.

August 2025 promises to be a remarkable month for skywatchers. According to Forbes, the night sky is filled with ...

Another (and, in our view, more important) source of energy for life on Iceheim is the heat coming from its core, underneath ...

"If we were able to take a picture of WASP-17b at optical wavelengths and resolve the disk of the planet, we would see these ...

Mercury begins to emerge from the dawn glow after Aug. 12. On Aug. 19, Mercury reaches its greatest elongation west of the ...

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.

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 ...

Jellyfish can be found in every ocean and seacoast in the world. Georgia’s coast is no exception, and August is peak time for the gelatinous creatures that lack brains, hearts, bones and even blood.

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

The NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile recently captured rare footage of the visitor known as 3I/ATLAS — only the third interstellar object discovered. What’s more impressive: The observatory ...