Overview

• NASA and national observatories have issued official schedules confirming only two eclipses in 2025 and dismissing viral claims of an August 2 event.
• The first 2025 eclipse will be annular on February 28 over remote South Pacific waters, and the second will be partial on August 23 in Canada, Greenland and the Arctic.
• Widespread speculation sprang from the April 8, 2024 North American total eclipse, underscoring the challenge of combating misinformation on social media.
• Space.com data show the August 2, 2027 eclipse will last six minutes and 23 seconds, making it the longest land-visible total solar eclipse between 1991 and 2114.
• The exceptional duration results from Earth’s aphelion, the Moon’s perigee and a near-equatorial path that slows the Moon’s shadow.