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, ...

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

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

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar eclipse can only take place at the phase of new moon, but different factors ...

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.

Plus, a few other things must fit into place, such as the phases of the moon and the distance of it from Earth also changes, which creates a different type of eclipse. For this solar eclipse ...

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