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

On March 29, the Moon will wedge itself between the Sun and Earth, blocking only a part of the star from our view.

The Keeble Observatory at Randolph-Macon College holds weekly public viewing during spring semester. Check their website ( or ...

The world is hungry for renewable sources of energy, which has led some scientists to ask the question: what about the rotation of the Earth ... panels collect the Sun’s light, generators ...

On March 29, a partial solar eclipse will cause a dark shadow over eastern North America — and weather satellites will pick ...

A European Meteosat satellite and another from the U.S. NOAA captured images of the Moon’s shadow projected over the areas ...

The Earth’s axis is at right angles to the line from sun to Earth, the sun is directly over the equator and the lengths of ...

Venus has phases just like the moon. Before and after the conjunction, Venus looks like a thin crescent — though only ...

Even though Venus moves between the Earth and sun every 19.5 months, it becomes visible after sunset and before sunrise only ...

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

Earth’s rotation gradually slows due to interactions with the Moon and oceans. Capturing a minuscule fraction of this energy would not disrupt the planet’s rotation significantly. Instead ...