One of the two spacecraft that make up Europe's Proba-3 solar-eclipse mission just reestablished contact with its handlers after being incommunicado for a month.

We're just over a week away from the first solar eclipse of 2026! An annular solar eclipse will take place on Feb. 17, 2026.

On Aug. 2, 2027, 89 million people across Spain, North Africa and the Middle East will see the longest remaining total solar eclipse of the century.

The spacecraft take 19 hours and 36 minutes to complete one orbit around Earth, carrying out observations of the Sun’s corona during a six-hour window of each orbit. The corona, the outermost region ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it has re-established communication with a spacecraft that is part of its ...

Science is messy business. Finding the truth is easier said than done.

From 2026 to 2028, Earth will see a double eclipse cascade: three total solar eclipses and three annular solar eclipses.

Eclipse season is basically the astrological equivalent of the universe grabbing the aux cord and saying, “Actually, new playlist.” While lunar eclipses tend to serve the drama of endings and ...

"People stood on rooftops everywhere, heads tilted upward, calmly observing the rare phenomenon through homemade sunshades," ...

A solar eclipse recorded in ancient China more than 2,700 years ago is helping scientists refine measurements of Earth’s rotation and investigate the Sun’s past behavior.