"Become an even smaller baby."That one sentence started the story of the universe with baby Sol.In parts ①〜③, we traced the ...

At the start of the month, Mars is higher in the sky but is heading rapidly downward and passes to the left of Jupiter on ...

Gene Roddenberry's known for Star Trek, but his underrated 5-season series is a perfect binge for sci-fi fans.

Andromeda is a constellation based on the Ethiopian princess Andromeda from Greek mythology. It is located between Cassiopeia ...

Could that faint glow in the autumn sky be an entire galaxy sending us light from 2.5 million years ago? getty Andromeda’s light began traveling toward Earth about 2.5 million years ago Dark skies ...

Each Monday, I pick North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also apply to mid-northern latitudes in the Northern Hemisphere).

Two-and-a-half million years ago, Earth was going through some big changes. It was the start of the Pleistocene epoch – a period of major ice ages. And the ancestors of modern humans were just ...

Michael d’Estries is a science journalist with two decades of experience devoted to illuminating astronomy, space exploration, and sustainability through compelling storytelling.

“Eyes to the Skies” 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 next ...

In the early days of the universe, our home looked very different than it does today. Back then, the region in our universe that would eventually become our Milky Way neighborhood was a collection of ...

Astronomers have discovered the first globular cluster stellar stream beyond the Milky Way, opening a new way to study dark matter in distant galaxies. These faint trails of stars trace a galaxy’s ...