Venus watch: Don't look directly, warn experts

The transit of planet Venus across the face of the sun - a rare celestial event - will take place on Tuesday giving sky gazers of several generations a spectacle of a lifetime.Venus will drift......

Decade's last solar eclipse witnessed in parts of India

The Moon on Thursday slowly masked the Sun to leave just a burning ring of fire in what was the last solar eclipse of the decade, an astronomical phenomenon witnessed by thousands of scientists and......

Total lunar eclipse wows stargazers

The entire moon turned coppery-red as the earth's shadow eclipsed it completely in the early hours of Sunday. Amateur stargazers and astronomers gathered in large numbers at several places in the......

Visual treat: Venus to cross sun disc

Astronomers, professionals and amateurs alike are gearing up for a rare celestial event in which planet Venus will cross the sun's disc on June 8.The Venus transit is like a solar eclipse, except......