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

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 ...

Scientists use satellites to mimic a total solar eclipse in space - Scientists said they are thrilled by the preliminary ...

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 ...

We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...

China is setting up a big, long-term plan for its space science, moving into a faster development phase. New advancements in ...