In addition to refraction hastening sunrise and delaying sunset, there is another factor that makes daylight longer than night at an equinox: sunrise and sunset are defined as the times when the first ...

‘Awe’ is an emotion many of us have felt throughout our lives, but one that has eluded a singular definition throughout its ...

Many people witnessed their first and perhaps last total solar eclipse in April. The next eclipse will look like a "ring of ...

Tuesday, September 17, 2024, sees a partial lunar eclipse as a full "Harvest Moon" drifts through the edge of Earth's shadow in space. It will set up a "ring of fire." ...

NASA explains how a 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse occurs and how it differs from a total solar eclipse. WARNING: ...

The evening of Tuesday, September 17, 2024, saw a beautiful partial lunar eclipse as the full "Harvest Supermoon" drifted ...

New NASA research reveals a process to generate extremely accurate eclipse maps, which plot the predicted path of the Moon’s ...

An overview of how various religions view solar eclipses, including Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Judaism.

The night sky on Tuesday will treat us to a partial lunar eclipse during a supermoon. It’s an astronomical wonder that almost ...

Not only is September's full moon also a so-called "supermoon" because of its size and brightness, but it's also due to be ...

As is obvious, the two phenomena are not the same and, in this case, the solar eclipse is the occultation, for a few moments, of the Sun, which is no longer seen from the Earth. They occur when ...

This year we will still have one more eclipse, but it will be an annular solar one. It is projected to happen on October 2 and will last 7 minutes; in this case, it will be more visible for South ...