You can damage your eyes permanently — even with a brief glance at the sun If you look directly at the solar eclipse on Monday without protection, you could damage your eyesight — permanently.

North America is just 40 days from its second total solar eclipse of the 21st century. Less than seven years after the “Great American Eclipse,” it all happens again on Monday, April 8 ...

Science journalist David Baron is an umbraphile, an eclipse chaser. He says a solar eclipse is the ultimate experience of awe ...

During a total solar eclipse, three key conditions happen at the same time: The moon is in the "new moon" phase; the moon crosses the plane of the Earth's orbit; and the moon is at its closest ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Two eclipses will occur in the next few weeks—a lunar eclipse in the ...

A solar eclipse happens when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth A partial eclipse is when the Moon only blocks a bit of the Sun. And an annular eclipse happens when the Moon is fully in ...

When this happens, the Moon casts two types of shadows. One results in a partial solar eclipse, which covers only part of the Sun. The other - and arguably the most spectacular - is called a total ...

The Proba-3 mission consists of two spacecraft that will fly in close formation to study the sun, with the shadow of one ...

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover was treated to a 'googly eye' solar eclipse on Sept. 30 as the planet's moon Phobos passed in ...

Unfortunately, an on-air mistake meant that the Sun and Moon were not the only two orbs which were broadcast. The station had ...

What is an annular solar eclipse? A report from BBC says that a solar eclipses happen when the Moon casts a shadow on Earth and in a total eclipse, the whole disc of the Sun is blocked.