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.

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

"We almost couldn’t believe our eyes,” one of the researchers said. “This was the first try, and it worked. It was so ...

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

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

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

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