Fred passed away peacefully June 1 in hospice at their home in Portal, Arizona. This is, of course, incredibly sad for those ...

Astronomy has lost one of its most assiduous calculators of eclipses with the passing of astronomer Fred Espenak, known ...

Fred Espenak, an astrophysicist that Astronomy magazine dubbed "Earth's premiere authority on solar eclipses," died Sunday, June 1, at his home in Portal, Arizona. He was 71 years old.

The 585 B.C. Eclipse of Peace turned fear into ceasefire, as a solar eclipse halted war and reshaped ancient views of the ...

In 1970 and with a fresh driver’s license, teenage Fred Espenak persuaded his parents to let him drive 600 miles to a small North Carolina town to stare at the sky. On a grassy field behind a ...

Fred “Mr. Eclipse” Espenak announced yesterday that he has been diagnosed with Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis, a progressive lung disease. The former NASA astrophysicist is renowned for ...

“According to retired NASA scientist Fred Espenak’s website, Astropixels, the April 12-13 Apogee Moon is 406,006 kilometers away at that time. That is the farthest, and thus smallest Full Moon ...

Credit: NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio/Fred Espenak/Scott Sutherland This name originates from the lunar calendar of the indigenous peoples living in what is now the US Northeast.

To find links about the workings of lunar eclipses or how to try your hand at photographing this celestial spectacle, check out Fred Espenak’s webpage at mreclipse.com. And to learn if anyone in ...

according to projections from Fred Espenak, a former NASA astrophysicist. There have been two other supermoons this year on Aug. 19 and Sept. 18, and another is forecast for Nov. 15., however ...

“I personally can't tell the difference between a supermoon and a regular moon,” Fred Espenak, a scientist emeritus for NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, told Morning Edition. “And I've ...