Delta Air Lines hand-picked an Airbus plane with “extra-large windows” for the special flight, which will depart from Austin at 12:15 p.m. CT and land in Detroit at 4:20 p.m. ET.

While Monday's total solar eclipse was a bust for some in the GTA thanks to gloomy clouds, those who happened to be flying above them in a plane got a VIP seat for the major celestial event.

The European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Solar Orbiter is out of alignment with the rest of the Solar System. And that’s a good thing. By orbiting the Sun outside of the Solar System’s orbital plane, the ...