T he sky isn't just blue by chance. I t takes all the colors of the rainbow for us to see it that way. I t happens because of something called the Rayleigh effect, or Rayleigh scattering ...

During the total lunar eclipse early Friday morning, the moon will still be visible in the night sky, but its color will change. Here's when and how to see the Blood Moon.

Residents awake at midnight Thursday through the earliest hours of Friday morning can look outside and see a total lunar ...

It was around 1870 when the British physicist John William Strutt, better known as Lord Rayleigh, first found an explanation for why the sky is blue: blue light from the sun is scattered the most when ...