The moon slipped between the Earth and the sun on Saturday, casting a shadow on our planet in parts of the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Russia and Africa. In Photos The moon ...

Over 4.6 billion years ago, Earth took shape from a spinning cloud of dust and gas surrounding the young sun. Tiny particles ...

You just have to be in the right place at the right time. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon is positioned between Earth and the sun and casts a shadow over Earth. Solar eclipses only occur ...

A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon's orbit comes between the Sun and the Earth, causing a shadow to be cast over the planet, with the illuminated half of our satellite facing the Sun and the ...

It's a special cosmic event where the Sun, Moon and Earth all have to line up for it to happen. Depending on how they line up, there are different types of eclipses that are visible from the Earth.

Approximately every two weeks, we have a full moon or new moon, which occurs because the Earth, Sun and Moon align, either completely obscuring the Moon's light between the Sun and Earth (new moon ...