Where will the total solar eclipse 2026 be visible from?

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The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026 will sweep across parts of the Northern Hemisphere, offering millions of people a chance to witness one of nature’s most spectacular sights. The path of totality — in which the moon completely covers the sun — begins over the Arctic Ocean, before crossing eastern Greenland, western Iceland and northern Spain. It then passes over the Balearic Islands before ending over the Mediterranean Sea. Only skywatchers inside this relatively narrow path, just 182 miles (293 kilometers) wide, will experience totality, where day briefly…

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APOD: 2026 August 6 – New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability

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APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 6 – New… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions Index Search Calendar RSS Education About Discuss   APOD Astronomy Picture of the Day Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. New Sharpest Image of the Sun Uncovers Instability Explanation: What does the new sharpest image of our Sun show? Instability. To be clear, a certain kind of interactive process called the Kelvin-Helmholtz instability (KHI). This instability can create waves and swirls when…

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The ‘Dark Matter’ season 2 trailer is here, and it looks like Apple TV has another sci-fi hit on its hands

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Dark Matter — Season 2 Official Trailer | Apple TV – YouTube Watch On You might think you’re done with the multiverse, but the multiverse is not done with you, as Apple TV preps the next season of its mind-bending sci-fi series, “Dark Matter.” Adapted from New York Times bestselling novelist Blake Crouch’s 2016 novel of the same name, “Dark Matter” is another stellar series from the streaming platform that’s become the go-to destination for premium science fiction content with hit shows “Foundation,” “Silo,” “For All Mankind,” “Star City,” “Invasion,”…

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NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory

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4 min read NASA’s IXPE May Have Proven 90-Year-Old Theory A first of its kind measurement of a magnetar may have captured empty space behaving in a way physicists have predicted for 90 years, but never directly observed. The results published Wednesday in Nature. This artist’s concept depicts magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408, a rapidly rotating neutron star with magnetic fields over a trillion times stronger than Earth’s. Blue curves emanating from the star’s two magnetic poles represent the magnetic field lines. The magnetar is a significant emitter of radio and X-ray…

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Artemis III Orion Crew and Service Models Joined

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NASA/Amanda Stevenson Technicians joined the Orion crew and service modules together on July 30, 2026, inside the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew module will carry and sustain NASA astronauts Randy Bresnik, Andre Douglas, and Frank Rubio, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Luca Parmitano, while the service module will power and propel Orion during the mission to test rendezvous and docking capabilities with test versions, or test articles, of commercial human landing systems from Blue Origin and SpaceX. Read more…

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Advanced Mini-laboratories Automate Space Station Research

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2 Min Read Advanced Mini-laboratories Automate Space Station Research NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson swaps out sample processors in the Advanced Space Experiment Processor (ADSEP). Credits: NASA The International Space Station hosts hundreds of science experiments at a time. Some experiments can take hours to perform, and researchers need to account for astronauts’ limited time. Fully automated devices, like Redwire’s  ADvanced Space Experiment Processors (ADSEPs), have been designed to conduct more space science with less crew time. Within each ADSEP facility there are three to four “mini-laboratories”, called cassettes, that…

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Total solar eclipse Aug. 12, 2026 live updates — 1 week to go

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Get notified of updates One week until the total solar eclipse 2026: The countdown has begun… are you ready? The countdown has begun! The total solar eclipse 2026 will occur on Aug. 12. (Image credit: Photo by Erin Clark/The Boston Globe via Getty Images) In just one week, millions of people across Greenland, Iceland and Spain will witness one of nature’s greatest spectacles as the moon completely covers the sun. Our team will be following the eclipse from two incredible locations, aboard an expedition ship in East Greenland with HX…

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1 week to go until a dramatic total solar eclipse darkens the skies over Spain, Iceland and Greenland

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Get ready stargazers! We’re just one week away from the total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, when millions of stargazers will be treated to a spectacular display as the lunar disk passes in front of the sun, blocking its light. Roughly 15.2 million people spread across Greenland, Iceland, Portugal, Russia and Spain will be in the path of totality during the total solar eclipse 2026, where the moon will completely hide the sun’s disk starting at 12:58 p.m. EDT (1658 GMT), according to Time and Date. A further 980 million…

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