New York Times - Space & Cosmos

On Aug. 2, Southern Europe, North Africa and the Middle East will witness a solar blockbuster with extra-long totality. If you want to see it, book soon.The solar eclipse on Wednesday in Castrillo de la Reina, Spain. Next summer’s total solar eclipse will darken a 9,500-mile-long swath from the tip of southern Spain past the Horn of Africa.

A medical issue during Mr. Fincke’s fourth space journey resulted in an early medical evacuation, the first ever from the International Space Station.The NASA astronaut Michael Fincke last month at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

From Iceland to Spain, the celestial show drew visitors far and wide.

New images from the James Webb telescope show a galaxy with a trio of supermassive black holes. Two of them appear to be locked in a tight tango.Engineers working with the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared spectrograph. The instrument can tease apart the individual wavelengths of light hitting it, which allowed scientists to observe gases behaving in ways only a black h...

New images from the James Webb telescope show a galaxy with a trio of supermassive black holes. Two of them appear to be locked in a tight tango.Engineers working with the James Webb Space Telescope’s near-infrared spectrograph. The instrument can tease apart the individual wavelengths of light hitting it, which allowed scientists to observe gases behaving in ways only a black h...