CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida -- April's total solar eclipse promises to be a scientific bonanza, thanks to new spacecraft and telescopes, and cosmic chance. The moon will be extra close to Earth, providing ...

Solar eclipses offer unique natural experiments for investigating transient atmospheric phenomena caused by the temporary obscuration of the Sun. These events induce rapid changes in radiative forcing ...

Earth is about to see three total solar eclipses in just under two years, with each successive path of totality moving west ...

A solar eclipse on April 27, 2025, as seen only by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory. When is the next solar eclipse? Yesterday and today — but they were not reported in advance. Why? They were only in ...

On August 21, 2017, a team of researchers from the University of Alabama used an unprecedented array of high-tech weather instruments to study how both the atmosphere and insects responded during the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. The last total solar eclipse was 456 days ago in North ...

It's dawn, the birds are chirping, and the mist is dissipating—revealing a sun that looks strangely like a crescent moon. That's the scene folks in New Zealand will wake up to on the morning of ...

A solar eclipse occurs when the moon positions itself between Earth and the sun, casting a shadow over Earth. We explore the ...

On Sept. 21, a day before the equinox, a partial solar eclipse will obscure up to 86% of the sun Getty The last eclipse of the year arrives on Sept. 21, with a partial solar eclipse offering dramatic ...