NASA will launch a scientific campaign during the August 12 solar eclipse. A high-altitude aircraft will study the Sun's corona for extended periods. Dozens of balloons will track changes in Earth's atmospheric boundary layer.

Celestial bodies will put on a show in August. There will be both a lunar eclipse and a solar eclipse, and they're both very different. Here's how.

The next solar eclipse is on Wednesday, Aug. 12, according to NASA. A partial eclipse will be seen, among other places in the Northern Hemisphere, in parts of the northern United States, from Alaska to North Carolina,

For a few precious minutes the Moon can turn a bright summer afternoon into a strange twilight. Birds stop chirping, the temperature drops and the Sun’s brilliant outer atmosphere, the corona, looks like a glowing halo in the sky.

Skywatchers may have two chances to witness an eclipse in August. Here's when they will occur, where they'll be visible and what to expect.