We’ve been receiving calls into the WTOP Newsroom reporting phenomena in the skies that people can’t explain — but our space expert can.

Was that a bird? A plane? Residents of New Jersey and other neighboring states landed on drone. Reports of "drone sightings" over the last month have attracted the attention of many, from local ...

“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 ...

(WPRI) — Did you see the strange, swirling light floating in the sky Tuesday evening? No, it wasn’t aliens. The European Space Agency launched a weather-monitoring satellite and the swirl was caused ...

A mysterious glowing pinwheel in the sky on Nov. 4 sparked curiosity across southern Maine and New England. An astronomer identified the phenomenon as excess fuel released from an Ariane 6 rocket ...