The next lunar eclipse is expected to be seen in the UK on September 7, 2025. The most recent partial solar eclipse visible from the UK happened on June 20, 2021. The UK’s last total solar eclipse occurred on August 11, 1999 and the next total solar eclipse is due to happen on September 23, 2090.

Early risers were able to witness a partial lunar eclipse – or “blood moon” – before dawn on Friday. A “blood moon” is created when the moon moves into Earth’s shadow, gradually darkening before turning red.

Stargazers around the world caught the first sign of the lunar event, which began at 05:09 GMT, on a livestream run by LA's Griffith Observatory. A lunar eclipse happens when Earth moves directly between the Sun and the Moon, blocking sunlight and casting a shadow on the Moon's surface.

A rare blood moon lunar eclipse — which hasn’t happened in the U.S. since 2022 — was visible for skywatchers across most of North and South America, as well as the west side of Africa and Europe, the eastern parts of Australia and Russia and northern Japan.

Spectacular pictures of the moon were published as it was seen across the Americas, where a full lunar eclipse occurred, but in the UK it was only a partial eclipse because the moon had already set below the horizon by the time it was fully covered just before 7am.

Total lunar eclipse – The entire Moon moves into Earth's shadow and turns red. Partial lunar eclipse – Only part of the Moon enters Earth's shadow, creating a visible dark section. Penumbral lunar eclipse – A subtle event where the Moon passes through Earth's outer shadow, causing a slight dimming.

A blood moon will appear huge above the morning horizon this Friday as the lunar surface is shadowed by the Earth in a rare lunar eclipse...

Such an event is set to take place between March 13 and 14, though the exact timing will depend on your location in the world. For London, the 'maximum of the eclipse' will be at 6.19 am on March 14, according to the Royal Greenwich Observatory.

The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years lit up the sky last night as humanity, forever fascinated with the Earth’s only natural satellite, watched.