September’s was 222,131 miles (357,486 kilometers) away. A partial lunar eclipse also unfolded that night, visible in much of ...

Each Monday, I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

The odds of finding it were probably less than finding a needle in a haystack and the fact that we were able to go over and ...

Keeping hold of the House would give Republicans sweeping powers to potentially ram through policies like tax cuts, energy ...

Donald Trump secured the U.S. presidency on Wednesday in a comeback victory four years after he was voted out of the White ...

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...

The eclipse lasted about ... The tiny moon is drawing closer to Mars at a rate of 6 feet (1.8 meters) every 100 years, and it ...

Engineers have nearly finished building the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China. The detector is a massive underground sphere designed to capture ...

A geomagnetic storm, the largest supermoon of the year, a comet and an eerie fireball were among the skywatching treats that haunted the night sky of.

Here’s everything you need to know about astrophotography in November 2024: ...

What the new moon on November 1, 2024, has in store for you.

A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2. An annular ...