If that’s too long to wait, two total lunar eclipses are also coming, one in September and another next March. Unlike total ...

Prior to 2040, the last planetary quintuplet occurred in the year 1186, and according to Uptain, records show that the close ...

Our planet's closest and brightest neighbor will pass approximately between the Earth and sun this week, in what's called an ...

The alignment only happens at special times, and that’s because the orbit of the Moon around the Earth is slanted with ...

Venus will pass between the Earth and sun during what’s called an inferior conjunction. But don’t plan on seeing the linkup.

As the cosmic lineup unfolded, our blue planet appeared dark, surrounded by a ring of light as it blocked the sun above the moon's horizon. That phenomenon is best known as a total solar eclipse, ...

Astronomers have long suspected that there was at least one exoplanet orbiting Barnard's Star — a red dwarf with a mass around one-sixth that of the sun ... moon pulls on our planet and causes ...

In late 2024, astronomers spotted asteroid 2024 YR4 on a trajectory that could potentially threaten Earth. This observation ...

The moon appeared to turn red as Earth passed directly between it and the sun in what's known as a total ... of folks looking up, because our planet's position blocks most sunlight from reaching ...