Solar eclipses are some of nature's most dramatic celestial performances. Here's a look at the science behind the eclipse, and how to watch the next one on...
11 months ago

April 8 th 2024 the Moon will totally eclipse the sun and cast a complete umbra (shadow) progressing southwest to northeast across the US.
11 months ago

Measuring the Sun is tricky business, as direct observations rely on solar eclipses to get an accurate measurement of the Sun's light-emitting photosphere.
14 months ago

Facts about our Sun, including its distance from Earth, what the Sun is made of, and how long it would take to drive there (hint: a long time!).
15 months ago

Scientists have been struggling to explain why temperatures in the sun's outer atmosphere, the corona, reach mind-boggling temperatures of over 1.8 million...
17 months ago

NASA releases an animation video showing then of the known black holes in our Universe and how large they are compared to our solar system.
20 months ago

You could fit nearly one million Earth-sized planets and the sun isn't even that big of a star.
20 months ago

Nothing brings a smile to the face of a burning celestial object some 864,000 miles across like expelling giant plumes of charged particles — breaking solar...
26 months ago

The Sun is the biggest star as far as we can see. However, we cannot see far enough away into the Universe. In fact, there are bigger starts in the universe...
31 months ago

The next one will be a total solar eclipse on 4 December 2021. This is the only total solar eclipse this year.
37 months ago