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

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

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

Proba-3 will create about 1,000 hours of images of the corona over its two-year mission — and anyone will be able to download the data. "We have an open data policy — the uncalibrated data will be ...

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

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.

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

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

In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar eclipse in space, capturing the clearest images of the Sun’s elusive corona yet.

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.