Meteor showers, eclipses and full moons will appear in our skies this summer. Mark your calendars with these dates, stargazers.

You might think these events are super rare, but they actually happen more often than you might expect. On average, there are ...

While millions of Earthlings watched the moon turn red during last night's "blood moon" total lunar eclipse, a spacecraft parked on the moon was watching Earth swallow the sun. In a series of ...

On April 27, the moon blocked 23 percent of the sun in a partial eclipse, but it was not possible to see this from Earth.

NASA's PUNCH mission, a tiny constellation of four satellites, captured a photo of the moon drifting across the sky through a ...

Lon Tweeten for TIME Lunar eclipses rely on a different sun-moon-Earth lineup, occurring when the Earth moves between the sun and the moon, blocking the solar light that typically reflects off the ...

What happens to the Moon to make it a total lunar eclipse? During a lunar eclipse the Sun, Earth, and Moon line up, causing the Moon to pass into Earth’s shadow. When the Moon enters the darkest ...

Narrator: A blood moon lunar eclipse ... of earth's atmosphere before reaching your eye, which has two consequences. First, it means more overall sunlight is scattered, making the sun appear ...

In the Americas alone more than one billion people in 35 countries could bear witness to the total lunar eclipse ... orbit of the Earth carrying it between the sun and the moon in a perfect ...

We always see the same side of the moon, but part of it is in shadow, due to the moon's rotation. Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly ... to photograph a lunar eclipse.

You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse ... by light from a fully illuminated Earth reflecting off the lunar surface. Space.com's skywatching columnist ...