The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

A "blood moon" rose over the UK during a partial lunar eclipse on March 14. The eclipse became visible for many across the world as the Moon travelled through the Earth's shadow. This type of eclipse ...

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

Proba-3 will create about 1,000 hours of images of the corona over its two-year mission — and anyone will be able to download the data. "We have an open data policy — the uncalibrated data will be ...

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

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar ...

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. Earlier this year, the ...

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

Photoshop CC 2015 tutorial showing how to create a powerful solar eclipse with spectacular, radiating clouds of gas & dust in ...

photographers nationwide captured the rare moment for all to look back on for the next 20-plus years to come. Here are some of the best photos of the event, one year after the 2024 total solar ...