The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission satellites aligned to cause a solar eclipse that helped record and study the ...

Two spacecraft flew 150 metres apart while perfectly aligned for several hours, enabling them to create the total solar ...

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

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

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

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

The European Space Agency released images of the first-ever artificial solar eclipse. The two satellites of the Proba-3 ...

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

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

Stunning new images have captured the first ever artificial solar eclipse created by a European Space Agency mission ...