On this day in weather history, an extremely rare 'dark' lunar eclipse occurred on the 5th of May, in the year 1110, but how?

Diagram of a lunar eclipse (not to scale). The Moon only passes through this shadow a few times a year, thanks to its relatively small size and proximity to Earth, and because it orbits Earth on a ...

On the diagram above, the moon is lined up on a ... You get a solar eclipse when the moon is between the Earth and sun. You get a lunar eclipse when the moon is on the other side of the Earth ...

The space agency’s astronomical models suggest that a lunar eclipse turned the moon red over Jerusalem on Friday, April 3, 33 AD — a date many scholars tie to Jesus’ death. And that eerie ...

South Texas will experience a total lunar eclipse, sometimes called a “blood moon” — where the moon turns red during totality — and depending on your sleep habits, you can catch it either ...