Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar eclipse can only take place at the phase of new moon, but different factors ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

Proba-3 will create about 1,000 hours of images of the corona over its two-year mission — and anyone will be able to download the data. "We have an open data policy — the uncalibrated data will be ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

For hundreds of years, the only time mankind could see the Sun’s corona, which is the highly hot and ethereal outer ...

2017’s total solar eclipse. The last time Floridians saw a solar eclipse was in 2017. Just like last time, this total solar eclipse will not be in the path of totality, Crnojevic said.

Set sail on an extraordinary journey aboard the Douglas Mawson, a state-of-the-art expedition ship, to witness the longest total solar eclipse left this century which takes place on 2 August 2027.

Embark on an extraordinary adventure in August 2026 to witness a breathtaking total solar eclipse. Sail aboard a boutique polar expedition vessel through the majestic Scoresby Sund in Greenland, ...

Cecilia Payne deduced that the sun is mainly made of hydrogen - but was encouraged to downplay her findings by her PhD supervisor. Mike Sutton takes up the story ...