Two European Space Agency (ESA) satellites, operating together as part of the PROBA-3 mission, have managed to capture rare ...

Two satellites’ highly precise alignment allows scientists to study the sun’s outer atmosphere like never before ...

Two driverless spacecraft have successfully flown together in carefully coordinated way to create a small artificial solar ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...

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

The first images from the ESA's Proba-3 mission have captured the Sun's mysterious corona by creating artificial eclipses in ...

The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the first ever artificial solar eclipse ...

The European Space Agency's synchronised flight allowed a satellite to cast an 8cm-wide shadow onto its sister craft flying ...

Scientists can take a longer, clearer look at the Sun’s outer atmosphere thanks to a European mission that created the first ...

Two European satellites have successfully created the first artificial solar eclipses, providing scientists with hours of ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...