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

This is how we get the phases of the moon. For a solar eclipse to occur, it needs to be in its “new moon” phase. During the new moon, the dark side of the moon is directly facing the Earth.

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

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.

More specifically, with the Moon blotting out the main disk of the Sun, we can see details and features in the solar ...

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

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

In a groundbreaking achievement, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission has captured unprecedented images of the Sun's ...

A pair of European satellites, named Occulter and Coronagraph, have created an artificial total solar eclipse in space by ...