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 ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

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

Israel and Iran enter their second week of hostilities as world leaders push for de-escalation, and the U.S. weighs its next ...

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 ...

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. The results are stunning.

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

Now, Proba-3 has sent back its very first artificial solar eclipse images, and the results are pretty amazing. "Seeing the first data from ASPIICS is incredibly exciting," Joe Zender, Proba-3 ...

Proba-3's Coronagraph and Occulter fly in tandom as they loop around the sunward side of Earth, with the Occulter at the precise distance to block the Sun's disk for the camera. (ESA) Now, Proba-3 has ...

Proba-3 is an ESA-led mission built by a consortium of more than 29 companies in 14 different countries, led by Sener (Spain) and with prominent roles being undertaken by GMV, Airbus Defence and ...