The Proba-3 mission is a testament to technological innovation and international collaboration. Slated for launch at 4:08 PM IST from India’s Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the mission is spearheaded by ...

On Earth, total solar eclipses are relatively rare celestial phenomena. Months often pass between them, and even then, astronomers and stargazers have to travel around the globe to witness them. For ...

Total Solar Eclipses—in which the sun is blocked from view by the moon—are precious events. After Monday's spectacular, the next worldwide occurrence will not be until late 2026, and the US will not ...

What's harder than flying a single satellite in Earth orbit? Flying two—right beside each other, at proximities that would normally trigger collision avoidance maneuvers. This is the plan for ESA's ...

Total solar eclipses are rare, but exactly how rare is now up for debate after the European Space Agency debuted the first images today (June 16) from two new satellites that together operate as an ...

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’s (ESA ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft flying in a formation precise to within a millimeter of each other thousands ...

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission comprises a pair of satellites that will orbit the sun to give an unprecedented view of its outer atmosphere, or corona. The aim is to help scientists ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.Related video above: ESA ...

Days before a total solar eclipse sweeps across North America, scientists in Europe have revealed another plan to block out the sun. The audacious project — called Proba-3 — will align two spacecraft ...