Gaia-4b is the most massive planet known to orbit a low-mass star. Also, see an animation for Gaia-5b, a brown dwarf orbiting ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, ...

European satellites Proba-3 are creating artificial solar eclipses to study the sun’s corona with unmatched precision and hours of totality.

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

Following a quick succession of orange-flamed explosions, United Launch Alliance's mobile service tower and high-reaching lightning towers toppled to the ground Thursday, June 11, at historic Launch ...

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

LE BOURGET—The European Space Agency (ESA) and French space organization CNES have not paused any activities potentially affected by proposed U.S. cuts to NASA’s budget, but are developing backup ...

Two satellites have delicately pulled off an artificial solar eclipse, giving scientists a new look at the Sun's outer ...

ESA is moving ahead with plans for the first phase of an Earth observation satellite system that will have both civil and ...