During a partial solar eclipse, the moon passes between the sun and Earth. The moon casts a shadow on Earth and only partly ...

NEW YORK — Venus will pass between the Earth and sun on Saturday during what's called an inferior conjunction. But don't plan ...

Did you know both the astronomical first day of spring and Easter Sunday are tied to the spring equinox? How they relate, what to know for spring 2025.

Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into waters off the coast of Florida just hours after leaving the International Space Station ...

But because the moon's orbit is slightly tilted relative to Earth's orbit around the sun, it doesn't block out the sun on every orbit, hence why not every new moon results in a solar eclipse ...

As the fastest-moving planet in our solar system, Mercury goes retrograde three to four times a year for about three weeks.

A total lunar eclipse begins Thursday night, hitting maximum just before midnight. The moon will begin entering the Earth's ...

The Blood Moon will be visible in the Europe, North and South America and Asia. However, different parts of the process will be visible in each of these places. Astronomers predict people in North and ...

Credit: NASA, Alberto Bertolin, Bradley Reynolds NASA’s Artemis campaign is rapidly advancing the development of Gateway, a space station that will orbit the Moon and ... space weather from the Sun ...

"With the direction of the sun, the orientation of the solar panels ... understand how water and carbon were delivered to the Earth-Moon system billions of years ago, turning the Earth into ...

Earth formed over 4.5 billion years ago from a swirling cloud of gas and dust squished together by gravity. That same cloud gave rise to our entire solar system, including our star, the sun.