The European Space Agency revealed that a mission to create an artificial eclipse was a success. The photos will allow ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Seeing a total solar eclipse can be even more impressive than witnessing the aurora borealis, but it will be quite a while ...

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

The satellites fly 492 feet (150 meters) apart. One satellite blocks the sun, mimicking the moon's role in a natural solar ...