Multiple spacecraft captured the moon's shadow sweeping across North America at more than 1,500 mph during the 2024 total ...

On March 29, skywatchers across parts of the Northern Hemisphere will be treated to a rare astronomical double feature: a ...

Plus: A solar eclipse and an occultation of the Pleiades as our satellite skims through several constellations in the sky ...

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A partial solar eclipse will become visible this weekend in New Jersey. Will you see a "double sunrise"? Here's timing, key ...

On the same day, the Northern Hemisphere will experience a partial solar eclipse, when the Moon passes in front of the ... The result of this will be a rarely-seen crescent Sun, bearing resemblance to ...

Also referred to as "devil's horns" or "solar horns," this stunning visual phenomenon happens when the moon ... sun during a partial solar eclipse resemble a pair of devil horns. It's the same ...

It’s roughly the same magnitude (6.6 ... with a full disk that spans 58” on the sky. Rising very shortly before the Sun are Mercury, Saturn, and the Moon. However, the planets are likely ...

A conjunction happens when two celestial bodies appear close together in the sky. It could be two planets, or a planet and the sun. An inferior ... phases just like the moon.

On March 23, Venus will reach its inferior conjunction, or the point at which it lies directly between Earth and the sun. On this day, the sun's glare will make it almost impossible to see the planet.

Now that the total lunar eclipse has come and gone, what is there to look forward to in the night sky ... because the moon doesn't orbit in the same plane as Earth and the sun, according to ...

As the moon reflects the sun's light, the shadow dims the ... scattered by our earth's atmosphere. This is the same process that makes our sky appear blue by day or reddish-orange at sunset.