A pair of European satellites are creating artificial solar eclipses to provide hours of on-demand totality for scientists. This meticulous choreography is achieved autonomously through GPS ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) carried out an artificial solar eclipse in space as part of the Proba-3 mission. The two small satellites used in the mission were aligned with millimeter precision, ...

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 ...

ESA's Proba-3 Unveils First-Ever Artificial Solar Eclipse Images from Precision Satellite Formation Proba-3 captures first images of artificial eclipses, offering a new view of the sun’s corona.