Smoke from wildfires has caused the sun to appear more vibrantly reddish orange to people nationwide over the years. Just ...

The same light scattering that makes our daytime sky blue intensifies during smoke events, as larger particles allow the ...

The sun is reddened by wildfire smoke from the Airport Fire on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024, in El Cariso, an unincorporated community in Riverside County, Calif. The appearance of a red sun in the sky ...

In the vast expanse of the cosmos, a perplexing paradox challenges everything we know about existence, our place in the Universe, and the nature of life itself. The Red Sky Paradox questions why ...

The mean sun’s motion across the sky is constant and unwavering. You could literally set your clock by this hypothetical sun—and, in fact, we do!—to define a 24-hour day that never changes.

The point at which Mercury appears most distant from the sun in Earth's sky, known as its point of greatest elongation, will occur at 00:37 a.m. EDT (0437 GMT) on July 4, according to stargazing ...

Uranus is emerging in the eastern sky after being in the sun’s glare. Neptune is in the eastern sky rising around midnight and near Saturn. You need a telescope to observe the planet.

The biggest factor making morning rainbows so rare is the position of the sun in the sky. For rainbows to appear, the sun needs to be low in the sky, generally less than 42 degrees above the horizon.