2024 Total Eclipse

Solar eclipses can have a noticeable impact on the structure and dynamics of Earth’s upper atmosphere – the ionosphere. HamSCI will host the Festivals of Eclipse Ionospheric Science in 2023 and 2024 to gather data for space physics research and help scientists understand how these effects.

Want to experience a solar eclipse with ALL of your senses? The Eclipse Soundscapes Project, a NASA citizen science project funded by NASA’s Science Activation program, allows you to do just that while advancing our knowledge of how solar eclipses affect life on Earth.

Ahead of the eclipses, NASA is releasing artwork from creatives who have found inspiration in solar eclipses. The next two pieces are presented with short biographies of their creators.

A total solar eclipse will darken a swath of North America as the Moon blocks the light of the Sun for a few minutes on April 8, 2024. In addition to casting a breathtaking, passing shadow over the heads of millions of people, this total solar eclipse gives scientists a unique opportunity to study the Sun, Earth, and their interactions.

On April 20, a first-of-its-kind NASA-funded experiment will fly a scientific instrument on a large kite to study a total solar eclipse. Lifting off from Australia, the experiment aims to rise above any clouds that might block the instrument's view of the Sun's outer atmosphere, the corona.

To celebrate the special role of eclipses in connecting art and science, creatives across NASA will be sharing their eclipse-inspired artwork in anticipation of two solar eclipses that will cross the United States on October 14, 2023, and April 8, 2024.

Based on observations from several NASA missions, the map details the path of the Moon’s shadow as it crosses the contiguous U.S. during eclipses in 2023 and 2024.

This is the most zoomed-in, highest frame-rate observation of a Phobos solar eclipse ever taken from the surface of Mars.

On April 30, 2022, a partial solar eclipse will be visible in parts of South America, Antarctica, and the Pacific and Southern Oceans.

Scientists have used total solar eclipses for over a century to learn more about our universe, including deciphering the Sun’s structure.

As Chile and Argentina witnessed the total solar eclipse on Dec. 14, 2020, a little tiny speck was flying past the Sun – a recently discovered comet.

Aug. 21, 2017, marked a unique opportunity for scientists in the contiguous U.S. — for the first time in nearly a century, a total solar eclipse would sweep coast to coast, providing scientists under the path of totality with a rare chance to study the Sun and Earth in uncommon ways.