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

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

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.

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

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

ESA’s Proba-3 mission uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun ...

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

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

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

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

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, named Occulter and Coronagraph, have created an artificial total solar eclipse in space by ...