Adventurous music, knowledgeable speakers, a little comedy, great scenery -- oh, and a total solar eclipse -- are all part of the Ecliptic Festival at Cedar Glades Park in Hot Springs. The April 5-8 ...

This week we can see something that many beginning sky watchers miss. I say we can “see” it, but in reality, it’s invisible except in our imaginations. The planets orbit our sun, and the moon orbits ...

Eclipses don't happen at random — they arrive in pairs, on schedule, and 2026 brings two spectacular seasons to prove it.

Planet watchers with a clear view to the west-southwest can find Venus and Mercury tonight through next week. Venus is much brighter and easier to see and located about five degrees (three fingers ...

X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO, taken by NASA NuSTAR. The field of view covers the west limb of the sun.

As chair of the Physics Department at St. Michael’s College in Colchester, Alain Brizard anticipated that he would need to assemble answers to common questions about why total solar eclipses occur and ...

The moon just doesn’t wander freely across the sky as it orbits our world every month. It closely, but not exactly, follows the ecliptic — the line in the sky marking the plane of Earth’s orbit around ...

We’re getting a great gift in our skies this holiday season with three bright planets — Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — decorating our evening skies. We also have some nice celestial conjunctions, or what ...