At peak totality, some areas will experience more than six minutes of darkness, which is exceptional by historical standards.

In some locations, the total phase will last for more than six minutes, making it the longest total solar eclipse that many ...

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 ...

The solar eclipse helped unite America — or at least a very narrow band of it. By Christopher Maag Christopher Maag reported from the path of totality in Rochester, N.Y. Aidan Hernandez lay on the ...

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 ...

What's being called a historic solar eclipse is set to take over the skies in parts of the world in early August 2027.

“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 ...

An international team of researchers has used knowledge of historical geography to reexamine the earliest datable total solar ...