“Mayan calendar specialists anticipated solar eclipses by correlating their occurrences with dates in their 260-day ...

SAN ANTONIO – I’ve taken plenty of math classes in my day, but when it comes to figuring out when and where a total eclipse will occur, that’s next level math. Thankfully, there are people far smarter ...

It’s not likely that many people will see the total phase of Friday's solar eclipse. Totality will be visible only from the middle of the South Pacific and only for, at the very most, 42 seconds. Only ...

Stephanie McCaslin, a math professor at the College of Southern Maryland, missed the last total eclipse of the sun visible to the United States, which took place in 1979. But McCaslin has a starring ...

Hilton, N.Y.— Many teachers at schools along the path of totality are using the April 8 total solar eclipse as an opportunity to teach their students in unique ways. Ashley Simone, a seventh-grade ...

Solar eclipses happen because of a fantastic cosmic coincidence. From our vantage point here on Earth, the Sun is about 400 times larger in diameter than the Moon. But the Moon is also about 400 times ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — To Steven Bleiler, predicting eclipses is easy. “It’s just the sort of mathematics you use in grade school and an understanding of what we in music would call harmony,” he said ...

On April 8, a solar eclipse will occur across North America, with a path of totality — total blockage of the sun by the moon — occurring throughout the day above several large U.S. cities in ...

Solar eclipses happen because of a fantastic cosmic coincidence. From our vantage point here on Earth, the Sun is about 400 times larger in diameter than the Moon. But the Moon is also about 400 times ...