Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...

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 ...

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

He chased eclipses for five decades, wrote several books about them and worked with NASA to make data accessible to ...

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

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

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

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

Dubbed Proba-3, the $210 million mission has generated 10 successful solar eclipses so far during the ongoing checkout phase. The longest eclipse lasted five hours, said the Royal Observatory of ...

Now, the moon is between Earth and the sun. Usually, the moon passes above or below the sun from our vantage point, but occasionally it passes right in front of the sun, and we get a solar eclipse.