Latest Eclipses News

Here's your 2025 guide to the night sky and other celestial wow moments

Jan. 01, 2025 09:02 AM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The new year will bring a pair of lunar eclipses, but don’t expect any sun-disappearing acts like the one that mesmerized North America last spring. While the world will have to wait until 2026 for the next total solar eclipse, the cosmos promises...

European satellites launched to create artificial solar eclipses in a tech demo

Dec. 05, 2024 08:15 AM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space. Each fake eclipse should last six hours once operations begin next year. That's considerably...

When to catch the last supermoon of the year

Nov. 11, 2024 10:22 AM EST

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Better catch this week's supermoon. It will be a while until the next one. This will be the year’s fourth and final supermoon, looking bigger and brighter than usual as it comes within about 225,000 miles (361,867 kilometers) of Earth on Thursday. It...