The next total solar eclipse visible from the United States will happen on April 8th and span from southwest Texas up through Maine. Simultaneously, there will be an annular eclipse occurring but that one’s not nearly as cool, right? Certainly not cool enough to merit its own series of Delta

Author: Maria Popova / Source: Brain Pickings Two weeks after my fifteenth birthday, an otherworldly wave of darkness intercepted the sweltering August afternoon and plunged it into a surreal cool — the first total solar eclipse to sweep across Bulgaria since I was a small child. An hour earlier,

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News It was the eclipse felt ‘round the world. The August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse that crossed the United States launched a wave in the upper atmosphere that was detected nearly an hour later from Brazil (SN Online: 8/11/17). “The eclipse itself is a

Your video of the day is three F-15E Strike Eagle fighter jets attempting to race a solar eclipse. This incredible footage shows these ridiculously fast jet fighters chasing the moon’s shadow across Earth during a solar eclipse. The F-15E Strike Eagle is the fastest fighter jet in the United States

Nia Payne knew the sun’s rays were especially dangerous during August’s eclipse so she purchased a pair of eclipse glasses. Sadly, her glasses were defective and when she looked into the sky at the solar phenomenon the powerful rays burned a crescent-shaped wound into her retina. Months after