For the first time in 99 years, a solar eclipse cast its shadow across the United States on Monday, August 21, 2017, with with western North Carolina in the path of totality. All North Carolinians saw a partial solar eclipse. Check out this map to take a closer look at the path of totality.
See more great UNC-TV Science solar eclipse videos, blog posts and educational resources below.
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Lenoir-Rhyne students were one of 30 teams launching high altitude balloons to study the eclipse. Here’s what they...
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Students at Lenoir-Rhyne University join a NASA program to launch high altitude balloons that will capture images and...
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An NC astrophysicist's chance discovery turns out to be a rare, double-ringed galaxy 359 million light years from Earth.
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America's astronauts all learned celestial navigation at Morehead Planetarium. More than 50 years after training there...
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In the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains, a leaner and more innovative textile industry is growing. The...
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These race cars don't need engines; they're fueled by gravity. In this year's Google-founded North Carolina Gravity...
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Clifford Johnson, Ph.D. is on a mission. The theoretical high energy physicist at USC is a science advisor to Marvel...
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Ryan Bethea gave up teaching to become one of North Carolina's oyster farmers, using science to raise award-winning...