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A pair of European satellites are creating artificial solar eclipses to provide hours of on-demand totality for scientists.
One of the ways that scientists study solar wind—charged particles streaming from the sun’s surface—is by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. But because the sun is so blindingly ...
Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere—the solar corona. The mission's two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft thanks to a ...
Northern parts of the UK will see around 40 per cent of the Sun covered during the partial solar eclipse on 29 March, 2025, with London seeing 30 per cent coverage.
The partial solar eclipse will be visible in areas of the northern hemisphere. It will be visible at sunrise in eastern North America and sunset in Siberia, Russia on Saturday, March 29.
A partial solar eclipse on Saturday will make it look as if the moon has taken a bite out of the sun over parts of North America, Greenland and Northern Europe.
In Portland, Maine, it starts the earliest, at 6:27 a.m. local time, reaching its maximum phase at 6:59 a.m. Boston has just four more minutes to sleep in, and New York City is next on the list ...
According to NASA, another partial solar eclipse will happen on Sept. 21, best viewed in Australia. A total solar eclipse will occur in summer 2026, visible in upper parts of the Northern Hemisphere.
With the upcoming partial solar eclipse on March 29, here are our top recommendations of solar viewing gear for getting the very best views safely, whatever your budget.
Today’s solar eclipse will plunge large swaths of the U.S. into near total darkness as 15 states witness the sun completely cover the moon. It will enter the U.S. in Texas and exit in Maine ...
A lot is going to happen before, during, and after the total solar eclipse, and we want you to be ready for all of it. As the moon progresses across the sun, shadows will take on a crescent shape ...
Total solar eclipses occur every 18 months but the visibility path of seeing the full total eclipse is only around 80 miles, so if you are not located within that track it will not be visible.