The eclipse featured the new moon completely covering the sun. — -- A total solar eclipse was visible in the Faroe Islands today, a dazzling display that kicked off a day of celestial events.

Most things retired NASA astronaut Terry Virts saw in space were unique, but viewing a solar eclipse was out of this world. Virts, who now lives in Columbia, Maryland, with his wife and two children, ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Vernal equinox marks the official beginning of spring at 5:45 p.m. Friday. The equinox occurs twice a year, when the sun is directly over the Earth's equator and day and night are the ...

Michael Zeiler and Polly White traveled to the village of Mikongo, Gabon, to view a total solar eclipse in 2013. Later this month, millions of Americans will be a tank of gas away from the total solar ...

On Sept. 13, 2015, the moon will partially obscure the sun from view in southern Africa and much of Antarctica during a partial solar eclipse. An eclipse occurs when the moon passes directly -- or ...

For the first time, researchers have watched relatively cool parcels of plasma speed away from the surface of the sun and off into space, all the while cocooned in a million-degree flare. Shadia ...

In August 2026, a total solar eclipse will be visible over parts of Spain, Portugal, and a large chunk of the Atlantic and ...

The skies over a slice of northern Australia will darken for a few minutes today as the planet experiences its first total solar eclipse in more than two years. Today's total solar eclipse — the first ...