“The whole point [of the event] is to get them excited about this huge scientific phenomenon that is happening today.” — Ritu Kansal Several minutes before Solar Eclipse 2017 reached its peak, a band ...

“It’s so stinkin’ cool” exclaims Deb Hertz, 58, Monday afternoon as she witnesses the “Great American Eclipse” in Fairfax through special sunglasses she borrows from a local teenager. Shelby Gardner, ...

In 1834, a 22-year-old Yoruba man who would come to be known as Manuel Vidau was captured as a prisoner of war and sold to slave traders in Lagos, today the largest city in Nigeria. A Spanish ship ...