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 ...

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 ...

And soon, a group of scientists can say they have. A UK-led space mission will see astronomers blot out the Sun by using a ...

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 ...

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.

Total solar eclipse as viewed from Earth in 2023. Miloslav Druckmuller, Shadia Habbal, Pavel Starha The study of the solar ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...