Sunlight scatters off the mingled dust and sets it aglow. It's brighter nearer the horizon because we're looking more closely ...

Zodiacal light, often called "false dusk," is a phenomenon caused by sunlight scattering off interplanetary dust particles within the solar system. These dust particles, comprising remnants from ...

PUNCH isn't the only spacecraft studying the solar corona and the transition into the solar wind. NASA's Parker Solar Probe regularly flies closer to the sun than any other spacecraft has gone before; ...

That thin lucence is called the Zodiacal light. Over the opposite side of the night horizon is another just perceptible glow rarely perceived called the Gegenschein, or counterglow. In the tropics ...

Sunrise: 6:48 A.M. Sunset: 5:40 P.M. Moonrise: 11:57 P.M. Moonset: 9:20 A.M. The zodiacal light is visible after sunset at this time of year, sometimes called the false dusk. It's a soft glow that ...

The western hemisphere witnessed a spectacular total lunar eclipse on the night of Thursday, March 13, 2025. During this ...

In March the bright winter constellations of Canis Major, Canis Minor, Orion, Gemini, Taurus and Auriga fill the southern sky stretching all the way to zenith — the point directly overhead. Dire ...

Because of the alignment of the Sun, Earth, and moon—and the filtering of the Sun's light through Earth's atmosphere in between—the moon will appear red or orange, which is why it is also ...