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 ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission created an artificial solar eclipse in space to study the Sun’s corona, revealing new insights into ...

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. Earlier this year, the ...

A SpaceX heavy-lift Starship launch vehicle exploded late Wednesday during a preflight procedure at Starbase in Texas as the ...

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

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

A satellite duo orbiting our planet has just captured the very first images of an artificial solar eclipse from space, ...

On June 16, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced that two satellites successfully created an “artificial total solar ...

Flying 492 feet apart, one satellite blocks the sun like the moon does during a natural total solar eclipse as the other aims ...

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 ...

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