Putting together your DIY telescope requires attaching the objective lens at one end of your cardboard tube and inserting the ...

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Two radio telescopes with 40-meter-diameter antennas, one located on Changbai Mountain, Jilin province, and the other in ...

Alinda is one of the five largest near-Earth asteroids, coming closer than 9.3 million miles until the year 2200.

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Welcome to WTOP’s inaugural monthly feature of “What’s up in the sky?” Here’s what D.C. stargazers can watch for regarding ...

The newcomer replacing Pluto presently goes by “Planet Nine.” If and when it finally shows up, it will get the honor of a ...

Witness a celestial show on Monday, Jan. 13 as Mars vanishes behind the moon in an occultation visible from the Coachella ...

Exciting January sky events include Quadrantid Meteor Shower, Moon occulting Pleiades, Venus at dichotomy, a full “Wolf Moon” ...