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

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

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar ...

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

As per an ESA report, the mission uses a pair of satellites: one acts as an artificial moon blocking the sun, while the other captures images using a telescope called ASPIICS. This setup acts like a ...

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

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

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

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

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

What does an artificial eclipse look like? One space agency's satellites recently accomplished this task as part of a mission ...