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

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...

IMPORTANT: NEVER look directly at the eclipse while any part of the solar disk is visible. 'Trash' found deep inside a ...

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

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. Earlier this year, the ...

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

The European Space Agency's synchronised flight allowed a satellite to cast an 8cm-wide shadow onto its sister craft flying ...

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

In a groundbreaking achievement, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission has captured unprecedented images of the Sun's ...

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

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

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