He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to ...

The rise of astrotourism among travelers is on the rise—and while it might require a little extra planning, experiencing ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...

Rico, a 9-year-old prehensile-tailed Brazilian porcupine who has been delighting visitors at the Cincinnati Zoo for years, ...

The first images from the ESA's Proba-3 mission have captured the Sun's mysterious corona by creating artificial eclipses in ...

The European Space Agency revealed that a mission to create an artificial eclipse was a success. The photos will allow ...

Three Decatur friends have built an analemmatic sundial which they hope will be telling time at some public space near you.

Mars, Jupiter and Mercury will all appear low in the west after sunset. Look for bright Venus low in the eastern sky for ...

A montage of eclipse images by Fred Espenak of the total eclipse of the Sun of June 21, 2001 — the first total solar eclipse of the 21st century — that swept across Zambia in southern Africa.

NASA astrophysicist and Earth’s premiere authority on solar eclipses, Fred Espenak, died June 1, 2025. ... The first total solar eclipse Fred observed occurred March 7, 1970.