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

In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar ...

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.

Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere—the solar corona.

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

Scientists use satellites to mimic a total solar eclipse in space - Scientists said they are thrilled by the preliminary ...

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

The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the first ever artificial solar eclipse ...