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

IMAGINE your home was powered by the dirt in your back garden. Well, that could be a reality for future lunar astronauts.

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

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

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 ...

the researchers found — which is in the same ballpark as the amount the Moon's pull slows the Earth's rotation over the same period. Subscribe to our daily newsletter to keep in touch with the ...

Approximately every two weeks, we have a full moon or new moon, which occurs because the Earth, Sun and Moon align, either completely obscuring the Moon's light between the Sun and Earth (new moon ...

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

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

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 ...