One of the two spacecraft that make up Europe's Proba-3 solar-eclipse mission just reestablished contact with its handlers ...

The Coronagraph spacecraft appears stable with recovery and damage checks underway.

A pair of spacecraft has been flying in formation, creating an artificial solar eclipse to help scientists probe the elusive ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has managed to re-establish contact with one of the two Proba-3 spacecraft, after losing it ...

Total solar eclipses are rare, but exactly how rare is now up for debate after the European Space Agency debuted the first images today (June 16) from two new satellites that together operate as an ...

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.Related video above: ESA ...

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A carefully coordinated dance between twin satellites has created the first artificial solar eclipse in space, revealing the sun’s scorching corona in extreme detail. The Proba-3 mission, which ...

The Proba-3 mission imitates a solar eclipse to find out more about the Sun's mysterious outer atmosphere ...