A lunar eclipse, which causes the moon to look dark or dimmed, occurs when Earth is between the sun and moon and the three celestial objects line up in a row so that the moon passes into our ...

Amavasya, also known as No Moon Day or New Moon Day, holds special significance in Hinduism. According to the Hindu lunar ...

with the moon appearing to take a nibble from the edge of the sun. Crowds watched through eclipse glasses, awed by the best show from Earth. Wispy cloud had drifted across the sun by the time the ...

BEIJING -- China has successfully established the world's first three-satellite constellation based on the Distant Retrograde Orbit in the Earth-moon region ... sent into a sun-synchronous orbit ...

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 ...

The phenomenon happens when the moon is at a point farthest away from Earth, about 251,000 miles away according to NASA. It's opposite to a supermoon, where the moon swings closer to Earth and ...

Weather drawing by Emmy Flaten of Mrs. Martin's first grade class at Baxter Elementary School. Attention teachers: Don't forget to submit your students' weather drawing to the Brainerd Dispatch ...

The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun on Saturday, casting a shadow on our planet in parts of the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Russia and Africa. In Photos The moon ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...

A partial solar eclipse is coming this weekend, but weather could be an issue for many hoping to get a glimpse of the moon "taking a bite" out of the sun. Skywatchers across much of New York State ...

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 ...