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

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 ...

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

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

ESA twin satellites create artificial eclipses to observe the sun corona The sun’s corona was clearly visible without special ...

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

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

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.

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) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

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

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