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.

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

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.

Scientists refer to “first contact” as the moment that the moon nicks the solar disk — or when the partial phase of the eclipse begins. For those along the path of totality, this will be ...

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There is more to a solar eclipse than totality, including the interesting science behind the eclipse phases along the path to a total solar eclipse. From partial eclipse through totality ...

will need to use solar glasses or other methods to view the much longer partial phase of the solar eclipse, which will last roughly an hour and 20 minutes before and after totality. To be safe ...

The agency predicts the moon will complete all of the eclipse phases in just over 6 hours and will end at 6 a.m. ET. Unlike the total solar eclipse in April 2024, the upcoming total lunar eclipse ...