Overview

• Experts confirm that viral social media claims of a six-minute total solar eclipse on August 2, 2025 are false.
• NASA data show the next partial solar eclipse occurs on September 21, 2025 with visibility across Australia and Antarctica.
• A total solar eclipse will traverse Greenland, Iceland, Spain, Russia and a small part of Portugal on August 12, 2026.
• The “eclipse of the century” on August 2, 2027 will cross ten countries and deliver up to 6 minutes 22 seconds of totality near Luxor, Egypt.
• The 2027 event belongs to the Saros 136 cycle, linking it to the long-duration eclipses of 2009 and 2045.