The July 2024 New Moon occurs today, when Earth reaches its furthest point from the Sun, known as aphelion. According to the U.S. Naval Observatory, the new moon will occur on July 5 at 6:57 p.m. Eastern Time (22:57 UTC), and two days later the young moon will pass Mercury in the evening sky. Earth … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. Forecasters will soon be able to map lightning activity on Earth in real time and keep a closer eye on solar storms caused by the sun thanks to a new weather satellite. Together, NASA and … Read more
Summer will officially arrive in the Northern Hemisphere on Thursday (June 20) at 4:51 PM EDT (2051 GMT) – the June solstice. At that moment, the sun will reach the point where it is farthest north of the celestial equator. To be more precise, when the solstice occurs, the sun will appear to be shining … Read more
The sun warms the earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the region of space influenced by the sun, is more than a hundred times greater than the distance from the sun to the Earth. The sun is a … Read more
The sun warms the earth, making it habitable for people and animals. But that’s not all, and it affects a much larger area of space. The heliosphere, the region of space influenced by the sun, is more than a hundred times greater than the distance from the sun to the Earth. The sun is a … Read more
New research has found that the secrets of the sun’s magnetic field, which has remained shrouded in mystery for four centuries, could lie close to the surface. The Sun’s magnetic field is responsible for generating dark spots called sunspots, erupting solar flares, and even explosive ejections of matter called coronal mass ejections (CMEs). But since … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the Sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that can be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California, but could also disrupt … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the Sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that can be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California, but could also disrupt … Read more
The moon darkened the daytime sky as it swept across North America during a total solar eclipse on Monday (April 8), thrilling tens of millions of skywatchers who had their eyes glued to the sky. All of North America and Central America experienced a partial solar eclipse, but only those areas within the path of … Read more
Photograph (bromide print) showing the instruments used by the British expedition sent from Sobral, Brazil, to the total solar eclipse on May 29, 1919. Sir Arthur Eddington of the University of Cambridge organized the eclipse trip to test Einstein’s theory of relativity. During the event, two heliostats with movable mirrors were used to send images … Read more