Astronomy

NASA has not said why Director Makenzie Lystrup abruptly announced her departure on Monday and did not make her available for comment.

The Perseid meteor shower starts soon and peaks in mid-August. Here’s what to know about viewing them.

There is about a 50% chance that Marylanders could see the aurora borealis Sunday. That would mark the third sighting in just over a year.

To take a look at the comet yourself, you’ll want to head outside just before dawn and look toward the northeast horizon.

A partial solar eclipse will be visible March 29 from the East Coast.

The full eclipse will begin at 2:26 a.m. on Friday — that’s when the moon will appear to change color.

Good news: The asteroid everyone was worried about won't hit Earth. Better news: Folks working in Baltimore will help us learn more about planetary defense.

The temperature is forecast to be below freezing tonight, so don’t forget a hat and multiple layers if you go outside to look at the “wolf moon.”

If you’re able to withstand the cold and wind, Thursday night could be one of your best shots to see a meteor shower this year.

The folks at the Space Telescope Science Institute arguably know the James Webb Space Telescope best — so we asked them for their favorite images or discoveries from the last year.

Tsuchinshan-ATLAS, a once-in-80,000-years sight, will pass within 44 million miles of Earth, making it watchable with the naked eye in Maryland and much of the Northern Hemisphere.

A surge of particles from the sun caused the northern lights to be visible in Maryland on Thursday night.

The astronomical spectacle is expected to be most visible from the northern hemisphere Aug. 11-12.

The only people on Earth who regularly communicate with James Webb Space Telescope work in a nondescript concrete office building much closer to home — on the Johns Hopkins University campus in Baltimore.

The images released today show a distorted spiral galaxy, nicknamed the "Penguin” because it looks like it has a penguin’s beak, eye, and chest or tail, and an elliptical galaxy, nicknamed the "Egg.”

The timing isn't certain, but there is a possibility of seeing the brilliant northern lights much further south than normal this weekend.

Two Maryland teams — from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County — and a team from the Netherlands Institute for Space Research and Airbus Netherlands B.V., each worked on one of the three instruments on the satellite.

This week’s total eclipse of the sun was a total moment of togetherness for me and my son.

Don’t throw them out. Donate them, instead.

It's probably too late to make big travel plans to see the total solar eclipse. Here's how to view the partial eclipse in or around Baltimore.