From dazzling Jupiter high in the evening sky to elusive Mercury low at sunset, February 2026 offers one of the year's best ...

Today’s observatories document every pulse and flash in the sky each night. To understand how the cosmos has changed over ...

More people participating in the citizen science project Globe At Night could help fill gaps in what astronomers know about ...

In the western sky on Monday evening, Feb. 23, in the Americas, the waxing half-moon will shine a short distance to the lower ...

A new image from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope shows the Lupus 3 cloud in Scorpius bursting with young stars that are forming within collapsing clouds of gas and dust.

NASA has scheduled the launch for the Artemis II moon rocket for no earlier than Feb. 8. WTOP will have details on the ...

Astronomers have captured the first radio signals from a rare supernova, revealing intense activity in a star’s final years before it exploded.

There are several ancient monuments proving that our predecessors possessed knowledge of astronomy and used it for practical purposes.

The big astronomical event in February is a rare “planetary parade,” according to NASA. You’ll be able to see Mercury, Venus, ...

Astronomers detected radio waves from a rare exploding star, revealing what happens in the final years before a massive star dies.

Researchers are using X-rays to discover invisible markings left on ancient parchment containing information from the Greek ...