Two spacecraft flew 150 metres apart while perfectly aligned for several hours, enabling them to create the total solar eclipses in orbit.

The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on Earth, and are only visible along a narrow path. These events offer ...

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, but exactly how rare is now up for debate after the European Space Agency ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere—the solar corona. The mission's two satellites, able to fly as a single spacecraft ...

Incredible images show the first artificial solar eclipse in orbit. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 mission involves two satellites flying in precise formation, with one spacecraft ...

A European space agency created the first "artificial total solar eclipse" using a pair of satellites on Monday.

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

Flying 492 feet apart, one satellite blocks the sun like the moon does during a natural total solar eclipse as the other aims its telescope at the corona.

Incredible images show the first artificial solar eclipse in orbit. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 mission involves two satellites flying in precise formation, with one spacecraft ...

Incredible images show the first artificial solar eclipse in orbit. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 mission involves two satellites flying in precise formation, with one spacecraft ...