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.

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

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

NASA explains how a safely view a 'ring of fire' annular solar eclipse. WARNING: People should always use protective solar eclipse eyewear when viewing a solar eclipse. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flig ...

Known as Proba-3, the $210 million mission has already produced 10 successful eclipses during its test phase. The longest ...

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar eclipse can only take place at the phase of new moon, but different factors ...

Total solar eclipses are not just incredible celestial events. They are also important scientific moments that allow ...

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

The summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere, falls on June 20 this year in North America, and ...

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

As per an ESA report, the mission uses a pair of satellites: one acts as an artificial moon blocking the sun, while the other captures images using a telescope called ASPIICS. This setup acts like a ...

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