Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

SO, WHAT EXACTLY IS A LUNAR ECLIPSE? A lunar eclipse happens when the moon — slowly moving in its orbit around the Earth — goes into the Earth’s shadow. Sometimes it goes through merely the outside, ...

The largest, deepest Women's World Cup has dealt the United States its toughest group in history. The U.S., ranked No. 1 in the world, was drawn into Group D with No. 5 Sweden, No. 10 Australia and No ...

The Milky Way (left) and Andromeda (right) galaxies will collide and merge over the next several billion years NASA; ESA; Z. Levay and R. van der Marel, STScI; T. Hallas; and A. Mellinger A huge ...

As viewers in anywhere other than Antarctica we are only going to get a partial view and this is about as much as we’ll see from this eclipse. About as far as the moon will cover the sun here in ...

The moon turns red causing a phenomenon known as a 'blood moon', during a total lunar eclipse in Miami, Florida Getty Images of the blood moon during the first total lunar eclipse of 2014 have been ...

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This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Deadline is here, just three days away! We ...

To understand the formation and evolution of far-away galaxies, scientists use some of the largest and most expensive equipment on the planet to look back in time. Dr Amanda Bauer, a Super Science ...

Don’t forget, the thin crescent Moon and Venus will make a very tight pair tonight! According to my software, they are closest together around 5:00 tonight Mountain time (midnight UT), which is still ...

Astropixie notes that the Space Shuttle just undocked from the Space Station, and Jules Verne, the European cargo carrier, is just a few thousand kilometers away as well. This means that if one passes ...