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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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