NOIRLab shared stunning views of the total lunar eclipse in the night sky over Chile, complete with a blood red moon and beautiful, star-studded Milky Way.

Solar eclipses thrill skywatchers every year. You just have to be in the right place at the right time. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a ...

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

The celestial event comes just two weeks after a lunar eclipse created a “blood moon” in the night sky. A partial solar eclipse occurs when the moon moves between the sun and Earth but the ...

The moon turns red only during a total lunar eclipse, when the sun, Earth and moon align in a nearly straight line and the moon is fully in Earth’s shadow. The resulting red-hued moon—which is ...

It's been just about one year since the total solar eclipse dazzled the skies in Lower Hudson Valley April 8, 2024.

(Partial solar eclipses occurs when the moon comes between the Earth and the sun to partially ... While the U.S. won't be able to see the next lunar eclipse, expected Sept. 7-8, 2025, it will ...

That differs from what happened earlier in March during the lunar eclipse, when the Earth came between the sun and moon to block sunlight from reaching our celestial neighbor. During last year ...

If the Moon were to suddenly vanish from the solar system, our home planet would suffer devastating consequences ...

During that total lunar eclipse, the Earth will block the sun's light from hitting the moon, causing a reddish shadow to be cast on the moon's surface. Now remember, eclipses come in pairs ...

This is different from what happened earlier this March with the lunar eclipse, when the Earth came between the sun and the full moon to block sunlight from reaching the moon. During last year's ...