Skywatchers across the globe are anticipating the upcoming total lunar eclipse set to occur overnight between March 13 and ...

Texas skywatchers will get a chance to witness the moon turn blood red. On the evening between March 13 and March 14, the ...

Mark your calendars for the rare total lunar eclipse, as the Moon, Earth, and Sun align to create one of the most ...

Ever wonder why the sky is blue, vs. say red, orange or purple? An effect called Rayleigh Scattering is part of the reason we see only blue, despite it all starting with a rainbow of colors.

If Earth had no atmosphere like the Moon there would be no scattering, and the sky would remain black, even in daylight ...

It might seem like a simple question. But the science behind a blue sky isn't that easy. For starters, it involves something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering. But that same ...

The sky appears blue because the blue portion of sunlight scatters more effectively when it passes through the atmosphere, a phenomenon known as Rayleigh scattering, discovered by physicist Lord ...

EMERGENCY services are on the scene of an incident in Benfleet. Essex Fire Service has said five crews from Southend, Rayleigh Weir, Leigh, Witham and Harlow are "working to resolve an incident ...

That process is what physicists call scattering. It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: ...