An astral animated TED-Ed lesson written by Elise Cutts explains how the tides on Earth are impacted both by the sun and the moon.

The phenomenon of a Full Moon arises when our planet, Earth, is precisely sandwiched between the Sun and the Moon. This alignment ensures the entire side of the Moon that faces us gleams ...

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 ...

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 ...

The moon turns red only during a total lunar eclipse, when the sun, Earth and moon align in a nearly straight line and the moon is fully in Earth’s shadow. The resulting red-hued ...

when 0% of our only satellite will be visible to Earth. The photo below shows a 5% illuminated Moon. A five percent illuminated waning crescent moon rises behind the Statue of Liberty as the ...

(Partial solar eclipses occurs when the moon comes between the Earth and the sun to partially cover the sun, resulting in a crescent shape.) But people in 13 states – from West Virginia to ...

Only when the moon, Earth and the sun are perfectly aligned is the moon 100% full. And sometimes — once in a blue moon — the moon is full twice in a month (or four times in a season ...