On June 16, 2025, theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) unveiled groundbreaking images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar ...

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

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

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

Two satellites’ highly precise alignment allows scientists to study the sun’s outer atmosphere like never before ...

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

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 ...

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

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

Twin satellites fly 150 meters apart with millimeter precision, allowing detailed observation of the Sun's corona during long ...

The first "Occulter" satellite's 4.6-foot disc cast a three-inch shadow onto the Association of Spacecraft for Polarimetric and Imaging Investigation of the Corona of the Sun (ASPIICS) instrument ...