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

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission has unveiled its first images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere – the solar corona.

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released first pictures of an artificial solar eclipse created by its Proba-3 mission.

Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere—the solar corona.

Proba-3 achieved what no other mission has before – its two spacecraft, the Coronagraph and the Occulter, flew 150 metres ...

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

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

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

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

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

UPDATE: Proba-3 launched successfully Thursday morning at 5:34 A.M. EST (10:34 GMT). You can watch a replay of the launch here. In a fabulous feat of formation flying, the European Space Agency ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 is gearing up for launch on Wednesday at 5:38 a.m. ET. The double-satellite mission will liftoff from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota ...