Solar eclipses don’t happen every day and even when they do occur, only certain areas get the desirable view of the moon passing perfectly in front of the sun and turning daytime into night. If you ...

Southwest Research Institute scientists have compiled 41 solar occultation observations of Saturn’s rings from the Cassini mission. The compilation, published recently in the scientific journal Icarus ...

An exceptional solar eclipse will take place in France on August 12, 2026, with 99.5% occultation in Biarritz. This rare ...

The dictionary defines an occultation as "the passage of one celestial body in front of another, thus hiding the other from view: applied especially to the moon's coming between an observer and a star ...