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.

The century's longest solar eclipse is set to take place in August 2027 with an estimated 90 million people expected to ...

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

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

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...

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

It's 429 days — just over 14 months — since April 8, 2024's "Great American Eclipse" across North America and 429 days until ...

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.

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

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

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