Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The "severe" solar storm in effect has the potential to trigger the northern lights, causing a stunning display of colors visible ...

For modern people, a total solar eclipse is a fascinating spectacle. It’s also a great chance to reconnect with the fact that we’re passengers on a spinning ball of rock in space, falling in an ...

AUSTIN, Texas — There’s no question that the occurrence of total solar eclipses has had profound effects on humans for thousands of years. Archeologists know that because of the hand-carved and ...

It's the third of a generous five Saturdays in the month of November. What did we do to deserve such a bounty of days off? In the last week, we reported on hundreds of developments in science. Here is ...

NASA has taken to its social channels to say that humans will never visit the biggest planet in the solar system, but we may visit one of its moons. That planet is, of course, Jupiter, and according ...

Here in the northeast, we were recently treated to a relatively rare astronomical event. My brother Dan and his wife marked April 8 with an eclipse party on Cabbage Hill in Clymer. Friends from near ...

If you really think about it, creating an artificial solar eclipse right here on the ground is pretty simple: one only needs to raise their hand, or some object, and place it between their own eyes ...