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

Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere—the solar corona.

In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar ...

In a precision flying formation, the European Space Agency mission revealed new insights into the sun's mysterious outer ...

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

The European Space Agency revealed that a mission to create an artificial eclipse was a success. The photos will allow ...

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 ...

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

UPDATE: Proba-3 launched successfully Thursday morning at 5:34 A.M. EST (10:34 GMT). You can watch a replay of the launch here. In a fabulous feat of formation flying, the European Space Agency ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Proba-3 is gearing up for launch on Wednesday at 5:38 a.m. ET. The double-satellite mission will liftoff from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota ...

It is considered a breakthrough development in solar physics, according to scientists and the European Space Agency, which oversaw the Proba-3 mission and its launch last Thursday in India.

“With Proba-3, we will be able to see CMEs at their birth, how they are occurring and the first steps of their acceleration and development. This will help us to understand better the physics”.