NASA explains how a 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse occurs and how it differs from a total solar eclipse. WARNING: ...

A geomagnetic storm, the largest supermoon of the year, a comet and an eerie fireball were among the skywatching treats that haunted the night sky of.

A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular solar eclipse on Oct. 2. A "ring of fire" shines over Easter Island in a spectacular new image of the annular ...

It's a big month for astronomers, as a major meteor shower sparks up the night and the "comet of the century" nears Earth.

HANGA ROA, Easter Island/LAS HORQUETAS, Argentina (Reuters) — The moon blotted out most of the sun across the Pacific Ocean on Wednesday afternoon, giving just a few specks of land an impressive ...

Engineers have nearly finished building the central detector of the Jiangmen Underground Neutrino Observatory (JUNO) in China ...

Dynamic new partnerships could spark up when you least expect it at the October 2 Libra new moon. This is an annular solar eclipse—aka “ring of fire” because a fiery circle of the Sun will be visible ...

It was April 8 that was the outlier. Last week, many of us were on Easter Island to watch an annular solar eclipse — a “ring of fire” — which happens when a distant, smaller-looking moon crosses the ...

The Orionid meteor shower will peak this week as Earth busts through a stream of meteoroids left in the inner solar system by ...

The last total solar eclipse to grace the United States was on August 21 ... it’s in annularity, where we see a ring of fire. Then you have another hour and a half of partial. For the total eclipse, ...