is the point at which the path of the sun in the sky is farthest south. At the Winter Solstice, the sun travels the shortest path through the sky resulting in the day of the year with the least ...

This month will usher in two separate conjunctions — one between the moon and a rarely-visible Mercury, and another between ...

This NASA visualization, released in February, shows the shadow path for the upcoming ... where the moon completely blocks the sun, a partial eclipse does not darken the sky significantly.

Whenever planets are visible in the night sky, they always appear roughly along the same line. This path, known as the ecliptic, is the same one that the sun travels along during the year.

Instead, the sun’s fiery light surrounds the moon’s shadow, creating the so-called ring of fire. The path of Wednesday ... will still put on a show for sky-gazers on land.

Despite the offset sunrise and sunset times, the summer solstice is still the longest day of the year in terms of total ...

We’re quickly losing sight of Saturn, but Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky ... Through a telescope, Venus reveals a 37-percent-lit disk, which thins during the month as its orbital path ...