The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission satellites aligned to cause a solar eclipse that helped record and study the ...

The European Space Agency revealed that a mission to create an artificial eclipse was a success. The photos will allow ...

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

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

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A pair of spacecraft have been launched on a mission to help scientists get a better understanding of the sun by creating artificial solar eclipses. Proba-3, which includes two satellites ...

(AP) — A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space. Each fake eclipse should last ...