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 ...

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

Two satellites have delicately pulled off an artificial solar eclipse, giving scientists a new look at the Sun's outer ...

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

More specifically, with the Moon blotting out the main disk of the Sun, we can see details and features in the solar ...

The European Space Agency have shared their findings after using two satellites to create a man-made eclipse in space.

The European Space Agency has spearheaded a £154 million effort to understand the Sun's corona, which could provide ...

A hybrid eclipse, where both total and annular eclipses appear simultaneously, occurs rarely. Depending on the observation ...

Stunning new images have captured the first ever artificial solar eclipse created by a European Space Agency mission ...

A pair of European satellites, named Occulter and Coronagraph, have created an artificial total solar eclipse in space by ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.