While this alignment may not rank alongside major astronomical events such as a total solar eclipse or the appearance of a bright comet, it offers a moment of visual beauty and rarity—especially ...

A solar eclipse is a super-energised lunar event that ... Mercury retrograde backs up into Pisces and connects with the elusive planet Neptune. This means that our words may be more confusing ...

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a ...

When the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, as happened last April 8, a solar eclipse occurs, with the disk of the moon blocking the disk of the sun, casting a shadow on our planet.

A solar eclipse occurs when Earth, the moon, and the sun line up perfectly so that the moon blocks the sun and casts its shadow on our planet. However, the moon follows an elliptical orbit around ...

Mars doesn’t have magnetic poles like Earth does, but that doesn’t stop the red planet from experiencing the night sky ...

The moon will then fully exit our planet’s outer shadow at 6 a.m ... Eclipses tend to occur in pairs, so a solar eclipse typically takes place a couple of weeks before or after a total lunar ...

A total lunar eclipse will be visible across North America, inlcuding Florida, on March 14. The eclipse will begin at 12:55 a.m. EDT and last until 5:05 a.m. EDT, with totality lasting for a ...