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 ...

For hundreds of years, the only time mankind could see the Sun’s corona, which is the highly hot and ethereal outer ...

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

Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar eclipse can only take place at the phase of new moon, but different factors ...

Stunning new images have captured the first ever artificial solar eclipse created by a European Space Agency mission ...

Scientists can take a longer, clearer look at the Sun’s outer atmosphere thanks to a European mission that created the first artificial solar eclipse in space. The feat was made possible by the ...

The European Space Agency has spearheaded a £154 million effort to understand the Sun's corona, which could provide unprecedented insight into to processes behind solar storms ...

“The difference is that we can create our eclipse once every 19.6-hour orbit, while total solar eclipses only occur naturally around once, very rarely twice a year.

Two European satellites created an "artificial total solar eclipse" in space, the European Space Agency announced June 16, delivering data that will improve scientists' understanding of the sun ...

The difference is that we can create our eclipse once every 19.6-hour orbit, while total solar eclipses only occur naturally around once, very rarely twice, a year,” Zhukov explains in an ESA ...

First artificial solar eclipse captured in orbit By Talker News Jun 17, 2025 Updated Jun 17, 2025 (ESA/NASA/Proba-2/Proba-3 et al. via SWNS) ...

Zhukov anticipates an average of two solar eclipses per week being produced for a total of nearly 200 during the two-year mission, yielding more than 1,000 hours of totality. That will be a ...