Scholars have finally deciphered 4,000-year-old cuneiform tablets found more than 100 years ago in what is now Iraq. The tablets describe how some lunar eclipses are omens of death, destruction ...

How the Ancient Art of Eclipse Prediction Became an Exact Science The timing of the total eclipse on April 8, 2024, will be known to within a second, thousands of years after fearful humans first ...

Around 1,000 people packed the Science Museum of Virginia Monday afternoon, all in an attempt to check out the eclipse at the museum's new open space.

A flowery passage in a 6,000-year-old Hindu text may be the earliest known reference to a solar eclipse, describing the sun as being "pierced" with darkness and gloom and proposing that evil ...

FORT WORTH, Texas — From Texas to Brazil, a 105-year-old eclipse chaser from Texas has witnessed 12 solar eclipses in his life – and he's ready to watch his 13th on April 8. It all started in ...

Solar Eclipse 94-year-old man's total solar eclipse dream comes true when 26 family members gather to watch it with him In 2017, Art Cornell wrote a letter to all 10 of his grandkids, not knowing it ...

Looking directly at the sun during a solar eclipse can lead to permanent eye damage.

Here’s what scientists aim to learn from this year’s total solar eclipse about the Earth to the sun.

Alma Thomas, The Eclipse, 1970, acrylic on canvas, 62 in. × 49 3⁄4 in. (157.5 × 126.4 cm) Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the artist, 1978.40.3 Are you excited for the total eclipse ...

Art Cornell, 94, fulfilled his dream by watching the solar eclipse with his entire family in Cleveland.

94-year-old man's total solar eclipse dream comes true when 26 family members gather to watch it with him In 2017, Art Cornell wrote a letter to all 10 of his grandkids, not knowing it would ...