A breathtaking total solar eclipse is set to cast its shadow across parts of Australia and New Zealand, offering an ...

A total solar eclipse takes shape today, April 8, when an overlap between the sun and the moon is expected to darken daylight skies over parts of North America and ask awestruck Earthlings to briefly ...

Astronauts on the International Space Station had an eerie view during the total solar eclipse on Monday as the Moon's shadow raced across the planet's surface. Waiting for totality on Earth took more ...

This striking satellite footage shows the moon's shadow racing across North America at more than 1,500 mph (2,400 km/h) during 2024's historic total solar eclipse, when several unique phenomena were ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. G.F. Chambers: The Story of Eclipses, 1900, ...

Remember: a total lunar eclipse is completely safe to view with the naked eye. However, stargazers hoping to catch a glimpse of the upcoming partial solar eclipse, or of the August 2026 total solar ...

These bands of light and dark, coincidentally enough, are called shadow bands. Because they are so fleeting and subtle, only appearing for a few seconds before or after totality, they tend to be hard ...

When the moon blocks the sun in a rare "ring of fire" solar eclipse Sunday (May 20), six astronauts living in space just might see the shadow on Earth created by the event from their home in space, ...

Shadow snakes or shadow bands are wavy lines of light and dark that race across the ground just before and after the moon totally blocks out the sun during a total eclipse. Scientists still don't ...