Using an engineering feat never before accomplished scientists have created artificial solar eclipses, so that they can view ...

On June 16, 2025, theEuropean Space Agency (ESA) unveiled groundbreaking images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the solar corona, thanks to its Proba-3 mission. This mission achieved an incredible feat ...

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

In a revolutionary move that is bound to “transform solar observing”, the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Proba-3 has already imaged the first artificial solar eclipse in space after two of the ...

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

Proba-3 is an ESA-led mission built by a consortium of more than 29 companies in 14 different countries, led by Sener (Spain) and with prominent roles being undertaken by GMV, Airbus Defence and ...

Requiring neither lucky geography nor patience, the European Space Agency (ESA) Proba-3 mission, which launched on a PSLV-XL rocket from India's Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Dec. 5, 2024, has ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun’s corona.