We've even been asked if you could run solar cells during the long lunar night on reflected earthlight, so we decided to ...

The large golden aura is formed from the incoming light reflected off the sun-side of the occulter, a device that blocks the ...

The colors that we see in the Sun and the Moon vary based on various factors. The Sunlight is scattered by the Earth's atmosphere and is thus yellow. The dark, reflective surface of the Moon does ...

Venus will rise in the eastern sky in the pre-dawn hours of June 1 alongside Saturn and Neptune. Venus reaches its point of ...

In the Northern Hemisphere, June 20 is the day on which the sun is highest in the sky, aka the summer solstice! This is the ...

Our waxing Moon shares western Leo with the Red Planet this evening, visible for a few hours after sunset in the west.

Have you ever wondered where Earth’s ... the day. The moon’s outer atmosphere, called the exosphere, is very thin, and it does not have enough air to hold onto the sun’s heat.

The sun might be spitting out particles that create water on the moon This synchronization between solar activity and Earth's atmospheric response underscores just how quickly space weather can ...

Scientists believe that in about 5 billion years, the sun will die, becoming a giant red star that obliterates both the moon and the Earth. Here’s hoping that our future civilizations will be ...

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams under ...

They are the first moon rocks brought to Earth since the last Soviet Luna mission of 1976. The first samples of moon dust brought back to Earth for more than 50 years are in the UK - being studied ...