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 ...

Just weeks after Sierra Space Corp. publicly launched operations at a manufacturing facility in Centennial, the aerospace ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

Proba-3 will create about 1,000 hours of images of the corona over its two-year mission — and anyone will be able to download the data. "We have an open data policy — the uncalibrated data will be ...

Flying 492 feet apart, one satellite blocks the sun like the moon does during a natural total solar eclipse as the other aims ...

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

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

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

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

Viewing times for the partial solar eclipse depend on where you're located in the world. For those in the U.S., the eclipse will begin at 6:13 a.m. EDT and will last about an hour before ending at ...