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

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

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

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...

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’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar ...

While the film covers what the CATE 2024 project is and the value of science and data collection, it more importantly follows ...

The European Space Agency revealed that a mission to create an artificial eclipse was a success. The photos will allow ...

A Solar Eclipse or a Lunar Eclipse occurs when the Sun, Earth, Moon, and the lunar nodes align. This phenomenon takes place ...

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. Earlier this year, the ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.