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

What does an artificial eclipse look like? One space agency's satellites recently accomplished this task as part of a mission ...

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

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

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

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

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

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, ...

Two satellites’ highly precise alignment allows scientists to study the sun’s outer atmosphere like never before ...

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

Dubbed Proba-3, the $210 million (€181 million) mission has generated 10 successful solar eclipses so far during the ongoing ...

In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar ...