let's take a moment to orient ourselves in the moon phases diagram below, beginning with imagining Earth at the center of this illustration and the sun adjacent to the new moon. Think of the ...

This diagram shows how the Moon appears to change shape as it orbits (circles) the Earth due to which part of it is facing the Sun. When the lit area of the Moon we see is getting bigger each day ...

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 shadow over Earth. Solar eclipses only occur ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

DENVER — You could say the sun was literally chasing the moon on Wednesday morning because sunrise happened just one hour and 22 minutes after moonrise. It's a beautiful celestial scene that ...

It's a special cosmic event where the Sun, Moon and Earth all have to line up for it to happen. Depending on how they line up, there are different types of eclipses that are visible from the Earth.