Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, May 8Pluto is stationary at 7 A.M. EDT in Capricornus, although ...

Every month, WTOP’s Greg Redfern previews the best the sky has to offer stargazers regarding the moon, planets and stars in ...

Today, on February 26, viewers worldwide will observe the Moon still in its waxing gibbous phase. Following yesterday’s inaugural waxing gibbous, trailing the first quarter phase that adorned the sky ...

April's full moon, known as the pink moon, will reach its peak on Wednesday, April 1, 2026. The name "pink moon" comes from a pink wildflower that blooms in early spring, not the moon's color. This ...

A waxing crescent moon will pass just a few degrees from Jupiter tonight, creating one of April’s most striking naked-eye sky pairings.

Massachusetts residents might notice a bright red star close to the moon Monday night this week. That star is known as Antares, or alpha Scorpii, the most prominent star in the constellation Scorpius, ...

I was just thinking about how Shakespeare used eclipses as omens. Gloucester in King Lear blamed "these late eclipses in the sun and moon" for everything falling apart. Othello imagined a "huge ...