Learn how trees prepare for a solar eclipse, communicating with each other by synchronizing their bioelectrical signals.

Spruce trees anticipated a solar eclipse by syncing their signals. Older trees responded first. Forests may behave as one ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a rare partial solar eclipse in April, unobservable from Earth, where the moon obscured 23% of the sun. The SDO, launched in 2010, provides high ...

Learn how planet Earth’s only natural satellite was formed, its weird features like a black sky and extreme temperatures and ...

Some scientists think the moon formed about 4.5 billion years ago after a collision between an early version of Earth and a ...

This time, Earth missed it—but NASA’s observatory didn’t. On Sunday, April 27, a partial solar eclipse unfolded quietly in space, hidden from human eyes but captured in remarkable detail by ...

Extraordinary conclusions have been drawn from these observations, which would change how we see plants, but lots of ...

Many old myths and superstitions suggest that eclipses could harm pregnancy, with past cultures advising pregnant women to be cautious, believing the event could cause birth defects, miscarriage, or ...

The eclipse was not total from anywhere on Earth, and only about a quarter of ... as being because these trees would have experienced solar eclipses before, and therefore been primed to respond.

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