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, ...

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 uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun ...

One of the ways that scientists study solar wind—charged particles streaming from the sun’s surface—is by observing the sun’s outer atmosphere, called the corona. But because the sun is so blindingly ...

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

The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the ...

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a partial solar eclipse. See its view in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | ...

In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar ...

A pair of European satellites, named Occulter and Coronagraph, have created an artificial total solar eclipse in space by ...

It was captured by two satellites flying in precise formation, with one spacecraft positioned 150 meters ahead of the other.

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.