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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar ...