One afternoon in September 2020, Loran Hughes noticed an ominous plume forming in the Southwest Oregon sky, shrouding the sun ...

A viral claim says the world will go dark on Aug. 2. It won't — but a record-breaking solar eclipse is coming in 2027.

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 ...

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.

Only rarely has it been because of the second-year Sky star herself. u2028The public can’t figure out how to talk about her, in much the same way we have a hard time talking about anything anymore.

The latter half of July is soaked in the celestial with an astounding three meteor showers lighting up the sky ...