After a two-year gap, there will be two total solar eclipses within 12 months of each other, on Aug. 12, 2026, and Aug. 2, ...

The total solar eclipse on Nov. 25, 2030, will mainly cross the Indian Ocean, but views will be possible from Australia, ...

A rare total solar eclipse will cross Greenland, Iceland and Spain — Europe’s first mainland totality since 1999 — on Aug. 12 ...

The first solar eclipse of the year will take place on Feb. 17, 2026.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. Exactly 400 days from today, on Saturday, Feb. 6, 2027, ...

ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" ...

Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty of reasons to look to the sky in 2026. The new year kicks off with the full wolf moon on ...

The next total solar eclipse occurs August 12, 2026. Totality lasts up to two minutes, the first for mainland Europe since 1999. The longest eclipse in 100 years will be August 2, 2027, lasting six ...

Meteor showers. Supermoons. Planetary alignments. Black moons. The Milky Way. The northern lights. Partial solar eclipses. "Pinwheels" in the sky. The year 2025 was a great one for astronomy, and 2026 ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon and sun share top billing in 2026. Kicking off the year’s cosmic wonders is the moon, drawing the first astronauts to visit in more than 50 years as well as a ...