THE UK is set to be graced with a partial solar eclipse next week, where nearly half the Sun will turn black. This kind of ...

Tyson also explained just how the moon turns the shade of red it does. "It's sunlight filtering through Earth's atmosphere leaking into our shadow and those are sunset colors on the moon," he said.

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon align so that the moon passes into Earth's shadow. In a total lunar eclipse, the whole moon falls within the darkest part of Earth's shadow ...