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.

For hundreds of years, the only time mankind could see the Sun’s corona, which is the highly hot and ethereal outer ...

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

NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured a partial solar eclipse. See its view in multiple wavelengths. Credit: Space.com | ...

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

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

The European Space Agency (ESA) shared the first images snapped by the Proba-3 mission meant to observe the Sun's corona.

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Florida was not in the path to see the total solar eclipse, but the Sunshine State got to see a good bit of it. In Central Florida, the moon was covering as much of the sun as possible — about 58%.

The new moon occurs on June 25. A day later, Mercury reaches its highest point in the evening sky, and on June 27, the young ...

The dark skies during a new moon provide ideal conditions for spotting skywatching targets that would otherwise be outshined by moonlight.

Depending on which fjord we moor in, the eclipse will begin (first contact) between 15:32 and 15:36, with the total solar eclipse starting an hour later at an elevation of just over 24 degrees.