Earth, sun, moon: three objects in space whose interactions ... at rock concerts—more than a meter in diameter. You could fit 1.3 million marbles into it. But wait! It gets worse.

A total eclipse can only happen during a new moon. How many Earth moons would fit across the face of the Earth? How many Earths would fit across the Sun? How many times further away is our Sun from ...

the moon is also 400 times closer to us, which results in the solar and lunar disks appearing to be exactly the same size in our sky, making for a perfect fit, with only the sun’s corona—or ...

Beginning late Thursday, March 13 into early Friday, March 14, the Earth will pass between the sun and moon, resulting in the phenomena. Unlike past eclipses, this one will be viewable in some ...

The full moon falls in the midpoint of the lunar cycle when the Earth is positioned directly between the sun and the moon. The moon takes about 30 days to orbit the Earth, which is the full lunary ...

A lunar eclipse, which causes the moon to look dark or dimmed, occurs when Earth is between the sun and moon and the three celestial objects line up in a row so that the moon passes into our ...