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

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

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 ...

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

On June 16, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that two satellites successfully created an “artificial total solar ...

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

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

The first images from the ESA's Proba-3 mission have captured the Sun's mysterious corona by creating artificial eclipses in ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...

A European space agency created the first "artificial total solar eclipse" using a pair of satellites on Monday.