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

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to the European Space Agency s Solar Orbiter and its tilted orbit, scientists ...

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

The satellites fly 492 feet (150 meters) apart. One satellite blocks the sun, mimicking the moon's role in a natural solar ...

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 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 ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is expected to ask its 23 member governments to fund a new constellation of high-resolution ...

Webb has captured a frigid exoplanet in a wildly tilted orbit, revealing a system shaped by past planetary violence and ...

One such discovery made regarding the Sun’s magnetic field is that, at the solar south pole, the Sun’s magnetic field is quite a mess. Measurements from PHI showed that both north and south polarity ...

With a sale of the last two A330-200-derived MRTTs imminent, the airframer plans to wrap up certification of the first ...

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