After a lifetime of helping others see eclipses, Fred Espenak recently announced he is in hospice care for a chronic lung ...

Viewing a solar eclipse in the path of totality can be a truly life-changing experience. While many in the United States have ...

It’s already shaping up to be a busy year for stargazers and space enthusiasts. Although the weather is warming up and days are getting ...

“Christian texts mention that the moon turned to blood after Jesus’s crucifixion — potentially referring to a lunar eclipse, ...

The trans-Neptunian object Altjira, 44 times farther from the Sun than Earth is, could be the second known trinary, ...

Fred “Mr. Eclipse” Espenak announced yesterday that he has been diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a progressive lung disease. The former NASA astrophysicist is renowned for contributions ...

I have seen at least a dozen total lunar eclipses. As I watched the curved shadow of Earth again creep over the moon during ...

Last spring, the strongest geomagnetic storm in two decades slammed Earth, producing light displays across the Northern ...

Shetye made the project possible with funds from a National Science Foundation grant that allowed her to engage students in the arts for a public outreach project. The result of their collaboration is ...

April’s Pink Full Moon occurs in the balanced and refined sign of Libra and is traditionally nicknamed the Pink Moon due to ...

April’s full moon looks smaller than usual this month, and despite its “pink moon” namesake, the orb will have a white-golden ...

April’s pink “micromoon” will appear smaller than other full moons this year as it nears its farthest point from Earth in its ...