"Most people just dismiss partial eclipses. But I wanted to go to this partial eclipse to try to get the corona — and I did ...

When the moon passes between the sun and the Earth, as happened last April 8, a solar eclipse occurs, with the disk of the moon blocking the disk of the sun, casting a shadow on our planet.

You don't have to be in the eclipse path to join the solar festivities. Livestreams will bring the action onto your screen as the moon takes a dramatic bite out of the sun. A solar eclipse is a ...

Just hit the Watch live button at the top of this page. A solar eclipse is when the Moon passes in front of the Sun, blocking its light. It's a special cosmic event where the Sun, Moon and Earth ...

You can see a new moon when it crosses the face of the sun during a solar eclipse. New moons occur approximately once every month because that's roughly how long it takes for the moon to orbit Earth.

For a few fleeting minutes, the sun’s blazing corona haloed the black disk of the moon, and people from Mexico to Maine stood in awe, witnessing a total solar eclipse that many had waited years ...

"It's really exciting because it's something that everyone can see," says Bryony Lanigan, by using eclipse glasses or a pinhole projector. "We always associate the moon with the night, the sun ...