Greg Redfern

Reports came into WTOP on Veterans Day from people in the wider D.C. area, describing seeing a meteor with a bright green tail. The American Meteor Society (AMS) has received, as of 8:25 p.m. EST Monday night, over 100 reports of a bright fireball — defined as any meteor brighter than the planet Venus.

Take a peek at the Full Beaver Supermoon, which happens Friday, and see if any Leonid Meteors are streaking through the sky on the shower's predicted peak.

Does someone on your holiday gift list have a passion for checking out the stars? WTOP space expert Greg Redfern has some ideas.

Friday night is the peak time for the best performing meteor shower of the year, the Geminids. Here's how to catch a glimpse.

Clouds produced an incredible lunar halo that was widely seen in the D.C. area Friday night. Depending on cloud cover, there could be a similar one Saturday night.

WTOP has been reporting on the sky sightings that have been taking place in New Jersey and now the DMV. People who are not familiar with the night sky will see objects in the sky, some quite bright, that they are not familiar with. To them it is unidentified.

Astronomical winter arrives Dec. 21. It’s the date and time of winter solstice for the Northern Hemisphere and summer solstice for the Southern Hemisphere.

2024 brought multiple astronomical events across the D.C. area, but one story rose (daily in the east) above all the rest — our star, the sun.

A geomagnetic storm is in the space forecast, and WTOP's Greg Redfern says that could mean the Northern Lights are visible in the D.C. region.

“What's up in the sky?” 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 edition.