Space

Many Americans are making plans, from flying across the country to driving across town, ready to don glasses and admire a phenomenon the U.S. won't see again for 20 years.

Here are a few ideas on how best to take in the experience.

"I remember mostly everybody went crazy when it got dark," says 8th-grader Kaylee Tress. "It was such a bizarre feeling."

Visitors to the Philadelphia Zoo can observe their favorite animals and document their behaviors before, during and after the eclipse.

This tool from NASA allows you to get your exact window to see Monday's eclipse; all you need is your ZIP code.

We haven’t seen an eclipse of this magnitude in our region in 40 years. The next one of this size won’t happen until 2078.

Some people with expensive photo equipment are hoping to get the perfect shot during the solar eclipse. But for the rest of us, a phone camera is what we have to work with.

Here are some alternatives if you're clouded out during the eclipse or if you can't travel to the path.

Chester County, like much of Pennsylvania, will experience 90% totality during the solar eclipse on April 8.

The team will send weather balloons tens of thousands of meters into the atmosphere for experiments on gravity waves and the building blocks of the universe.

It will be another 21 years before the U.S. sees another total solar eclipse on this scale.

The moon's shadow will slice a diagonal line from the southwest to the northeast across North America, briefly plunging communities along the track into darkness.

When the April 8 solar eclipse draws eyes upward, having proper solar filters and solar eclipse glasses is essential to avoid potentially permanent eye damage, doctors say.

On the equinox, the Earth's orbit lines up so both hemispheres get the same amount of sunlight.

Stafford also served as commander of Apollo 10 - the dress rehearsal before NASA's first landing on the moon in 1969.