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

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 ...

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.

A MARTÍNEZ, HOST: So what makes this moon so super, you ask? Well, for an answer, we turn to an astrophysicist, Fred Espenak. He's a scientist emeritus for NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.

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 ...

This is “The Daily.” Today’s total solar eclipse will be watched by millions of people across North America, none of them as closely as Fred Espenak, a longtime NASA scientist who’s ...

according to calculations from retired NASA astronomer Fred Espenak. For viewers in the United States, rest assured the moon will look round during the evening of August 1. Supermoons generally ...

"When the sun's disc is completely covered by the moon, daylight suddenly changes from bright sunlight to a very eerie twilight in a matter of seconds," Fred Espenak, a former astrophysicist from ...

About 35% of all eclipses are of the penumbral type, which can be difficult to detect even with a telescope, according to eclipse expert Fred Espenak. The moon, which will be full on Monday at 3: ...

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