Recreating artificial solar eclipses in space could help astronomers decipher the inner workings of our sun much quicker than ...

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

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 Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...

The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the first ever artificial solar eclipse ...

Using an engineering feat never before accomplished scientists have created artificial solar eclipses, so that they can view ...

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission satellites aligned to cause a solar eclipse that helped record and study the Sun’s outer atmosphere.

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.

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

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 carefully coordinated dance between twin satellites has created the first artificial solar eclipse in space, revealing the sun’s scorching corona in extreme detail. The Proba-3 mission, which ...