Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The last total solar eclipse to pass over North America was in 1979, and one ABC News anchor had high hopes for the generation who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This frame grab from a video shows Gene Brick, 92, left, and his son, Bartt Brick, peer through a telescope in Madras, Ore., June ...

It has been 38 years since the last total solar eclipse in North America. Salem was in the path of totality for that one, too, and coincidentally, it also occurred on a Monday. Here’s a look back at ...

In 1979, when the moon last interrupted North Americans’ view of the sun, newspapers in the path of the eclipse proudly documented the moment. And Sarah Charlesworth, who would go on to have a nearly ...

When the daytime sky darkens on Aug. 21, it’ll be the first time in more than 38 years that a total solar eclipse can be seen from the mainland U.S. A lot has changed since Feb. 26, 1979, when the ...

The eclipse of 1979 brought astronomy students from around the nation to North Dakota. However, some college students from Fargo-Moorhead sought even greater totality in Manitoba.

Clark County greeted the 1979 total eclipse with a shrug. Today’s Great American Eclipse will be the first total solar eclipse to pass over the United States since Feb. 26, 1979. Although Clark County ...

Got questions about the solar eclipse happening Aug. 21? Five seconds on Google will get you more than 10 million results — including interactive maps that zoom in on the zone of totality from coast ...

MADRAS, Ore. (AP) — The last time a total solar eclipse blacked out the sun in Oregon nearly 40 years ago, Gene Brick was working in a timber mill that refused to shut down for the spectacle. The ...

The last time a total solar eclipse blacked out the sun in Oregon nearly 40 years ago, Gene Brick was working in a timber mill that refused to shut down for the spectacle. The World War II veteran and ...