For incarcerated people, being able to experience something collectively with those beyond the walls is a type of reprieve that buoys the soul and psyche.

A total solar eclipse crosses North America on Monday, April 8. Be prepared!

China had a long history of astronomy before the arrival of Europeans, but the politics of absolute rule led to the eventual embrace of Western methods.

Scientists’ approach to dating past eclipses changed when they stopped treating classical texts as authoritative records.

Astronomer Arthur S. Eddington argued that astronomy should be above politics, even when politics leads to world war.

Scholars sometimes credit Thales or Empedocles of Acragas with the first correct theory of solar eclipses, but it was Anaxagoras who had the science right.

On August 21, 2017, North America’s first total solar eclipse in a while will cross the center of the United States from East to West.

People have been planning for this month's total solar eclipse for years. They aren't the first to do so: the Victorians pioneered eclipse tourism.