A masked killer stalks his victim, ax in hand. It’s a scene that has played out in dozens of horror movies over the years. But this time, rather than tense strings or plinking piano on the soundtrack, we get Bonnie Tyler belting her head off.

It’s a scene from “The Strangers: Prey at ...

Homestead National Monument is a National Park Service site dedicated to remembering the Homestead Act of 1862. The Homestead Act gave individuals up to 160 acres of land at no cost if they built a home and lived on the homestead for five years, improving the land through cultivation.

The ...

An Idaho Falls man has been charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter for a boating accident during the August eclipse that left two of his passengers dead.

Michael Kingston, 63, had taken Elaine and Edwin Neal Jenkins of Utah boating on Ririe Reservoir on Aug. 21. Bonneville ...

It was a once-in-a-super-blue-blood-moon moment. Rare.

The rare lunar sight was caught as the moon was setting early Wednesday morning behind the Sutter Buttes, as seen from Township Road in Sutter County.

It was the first total lunar eclipse since 2015 and the first super blue blood ...

Some of those up early enough on Wednesday morning saw a special astronomical treat: a pre-dawn super blue blood moon.

The lucky observers had made it up to the top of Spencer Butte in Eugene before 4:30 a.m. Wednesday for the lunar event.

Those who made the roughly 1-mile uphill ...

The moon put on a rare cosmic show Wednesday morning: the first time a blue moon has synced up with a supermoon and a total lunar eclipse in 35 years.

In New Orleans only a partial eclipse was visible, but clear skies provided optimal viewing of the super blue blood moon, or what NASA has ...

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The U.S. West Coast will be getting its own version of a rare lunar trifecta – a supermoon; total eclipse, and a “blood moon,” so named for the reddish tint that it assumes during the eclipse.  According to space.com, this hasn’t happened since 1866.

Here in the East, we’ll ...

Clouds will block view of Wednesday’s Super Blue Blood Moon in Northeast Ohio (again)

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Northeast Ohioans will miss out on a chance to view Wednesday’s spectacular astronomical event: the Super Blue Blood Moon.

That mouthful means a blue moon, total lunar eclipse and ...

ALBANY — Wednesday’s lunar eclipse, which promises to be a spectacular celestial show in parts of the United States, has a long list of adjectives attached to it. In fact, it almost sounds like heavenly royalty as the sun, Earth and its natural satellite line up for a rare “super blue blood ...

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LAUGHLIN — The second half of 2017 kept the heat up but temperatures started dropping in October, in time for the various holidays. The were new events, new businesses, a solar eclipse, the decision to raise water rates, candidates and others visited, new teachers, homecoming and all the holiday ...

Thousands of visitors last August contributed to Homestead National Monument of America hitting its highest annual attendance on record.

Homestead Park Superintendent Mark Engler said the unofficial count for 2017 was 123,399 visitors, setting a new record and marking the second year ever ...

SCOTTSBLUFF — For Panhandle residents willing to get up early on Jan. 31, they will have the opportunity to witness a unique celestial event involving our moon.

Early risers will see a supermoon, a blood moon, a blue moon and a total lunar eclipse all at the same time. While the “moons” ...

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The first day of 2018 brings the second of three super moons and the brightest moon of 2018. The month closes out with a final super moon. This is also the first time a lunar eclipse has occurred on the same day as lunar perigee (the point during orbit in which the moon is closest to Earth) and ...

Clouds usually aren’t a big deal.

But for one day in August, clouds threatened to muck up the most-anticipated celestial event of the year.

The Aug. 21, 2017, total solar eclipse mesmerized the nation and drew visitors from around the globe as it traversed the width of the U.S. from ...

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Through Dec. 31, the Times-Call will count down the top stories of the year, as selected by the newspaper’s editors.

10. Boulder County wowed by total solar eclipse

Scientific data gathered from the first full solar eclipse to stretch from ...

In the weeks leading up to the August total solar eclipse, the warnings were hard to miss. Each mention of the coming total solar eclipse was accompanied by exhortations on appropriate eye protection.

From the WRAL newsroom to the halls of NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C., we ...