There are three major types of lunar eclipse you can observe when the time is right. Just as with a solar eclipse, the different heavenly bodies need to align in just the right way for we ...

The three main types of solar eclipses are total (when the moon ... the moon's orbit crosses the Earth's plane. On the diagram above, the moon is lined up on a node. The moon aligns with the ...

A lunar eclipse occurs when the sun, Earth, and moon align so that the moon passes into Earth’s shadow, according to NASA.

In contrast to lunar eclipses' three variations, there are four types of solar eclipses: total, annular, partial and hybrid. (Some consider solar eclipses to have three types since the hybrid is a ...