Live coverage of the partial solar eclipse

NASA’s eagle-eyed Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted the site where the Israeli Beresheet lander crashed to the Moon’s surface in April.

As skywatchers and scientists converge on a transcontinental band of totality for Monday’s solar eclipse in the United States, engineers in Europe are building a unique pair of satellites to create artificial eclipses lasting for hours — a feat that that could be a boon for solar physicists but will escape the view of Earth-bound spectators.

Australian astronomers are in the process of collecting the spectra of a million stars across the Milky Way in a project to study galactic evolution. In the process, they hope to track down at least some of the sun’s lost siblings.