A rare total solar eclipse will cross Greenland, Iceland and Spain — Europe’s first mainland totality since 1999 — on Aug. 12 ...

Waterfalls, rivers and creeks near Los Angeles have been replenished thanks to recent winter rain. Here are a few spots to ...

Skygazers, mark your calendars because one of the coolest celestial events is coming around again toward the end of February.

Later on Monday, the identity-shaping sun will enter progressive Aquarius, inviting us to take pride in the things that set us apart from the crowd. The next four weeks of this transit will be a ...

Beloved by 2000s kids, the Avatar: The Last Airbender franchise features some storytelling sagas so large that they take ...

The winter solstice doesn’t coincide with the latest sunrise or the earliest sunset. Those actually occur about two weeks ...

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon positions itself between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow over Earth. We explore the ...

How Makar Sankranti is celebrated across India with different names and customs, including Lohri, Pongal, Magh Bihu, Til ...

Makar Sankranti will not be permanently fixed to January 14 in the future. Due to Earth’s slow axial wobble, known as ...

The winter solstice, famously the shortest day of the year, is nearly three weeks behind us. So why is the sun rising later than it did on Dec. 21? The answer lies in Earth's rotation and orbit.

Despite the winter solstice being the shortest day, the sun has been rising later in the weeks following it. This phenomenon is due to the Earth's elliptical orbit and axial tilt, which causes a ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through space.