“Seeing a partial eclipse,” wrote Annie Dillard in a 1982 essay, “bears the same relation to seeing a total eclipse as kissing a man does to marrying him.” She recounts the strange spirituality of ...

It might be awhile before you see another solar eclipse. The next annular solar eclipse will be on Feb. 17, 2026 but you’ll only be able to view it in Antarctica. On the same day, a partial eclipse ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space Agency ...

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Grid managers say they are well prepared to handle a sharp drop in the energy produced by solar panels as the eclipse darkens the sky in North America on April 8. By Ivan Penn Ivan Penn has covered ...

An eclipse is a celestial event that occurs when one astronomical object moves into the shadow of another object, resulting in a temporary obscuration or darkening of the first object. The most ...

As this year's "Great American Total Solar Eclipse" approaches, NASA scientists commemorate the total solar eclipse of March 7, 1970, when 32 sounding rockets were pointed to the skies to study the ...

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The next great solar eclipse – the last total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous U.S. until 2044 – will take place April 8. And while almost all in the U.S. will experience some of the eclipse, ...

From flowers spontaneously shutting their petals to hundreds of thousands of salmon washing ashore, the eclipse yesterday (Aug. 21) had a downright spooky impact on nature, according scientists ...

Howling at odd times, taking an early siesta or tearing down their webs — humans aren't the only creatures in North America who will be affected by the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. For up to ...

Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and four years in office contained so much daily weirdness, wackiness, and horror that the human brain couldn’t comprehend it all. As Trump gets close to the White House ...