This year's buck moon will reach its peak illumination at 4:37 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Thursday, July 10, 2025. While ...

The schedule of solunar periods has been taken from Mrs. Richard Alden Knight's Solunar Tables. Plan days so you will be fishing in good territory or hunting in good cover during these times if you ...

In fact, the moon will actually become half-lit on Sunday. We call that phase “first quarter” because it is one-quarter of the way through the moon’s full set of phases.

Moon regolith simulant, moonglass, and moon solar cells. The inset shows a cross-sectional micrograph and the perovskite crystal structure. CREDIT: Felix Lang.

Shortly after totality, Blue Ghost lunar lander captured a solar eclipse displaying a “diamond ring” effect, when light from the sun started to shine through after being blocked by the Earth.

Sometimes sleep takes priority over cool celestial events. Luckily, you can catch a partial solar eclipse this month and a blood moon again in 2026.

Solar eclipses also rarely occur, while lunar eclipses are comparatively more frequent. While at least two partial lunar eclipses happen every year, total lunar eclipses are rare, says NASA.

The film features John Kieran explaining the phenomenon of solar and lunar eclipses in a simple and engaging manner. He describes how eclipses occur due to the alignment of the Earth, Moon, and ...

Due to the 5% tilt of the moon’s orbit from Earth’s orbit around the Sun, we do not have an eclipse every month. Each eclipse season lasts 35 days when two to possibly three eclipses can occur.

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon passes between the Earth and the sun, temporarily obscuring the sun's light. In many spiritual traditions, this rare event is considered a time of profound ...

In 2024, it was the total solar eclipse that captured the attention of stargazers everywhere. And in March of 2025, you can expect two eclipses - one total lunar eclipse and one partial solar eclipse.

In 2024, we experienced a total solar eclipse, and in 2025, we will have partial solar eclipses. This happens when the Moon passes in front of the Sun.