The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...

A European space agency created the first "artificial total solar eclipse" using a pair of satellites on Monday.

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

The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the first ever artificial solar eclipse ...

Proba-3 achieved what no other mission has before – its two spacecraft, the Coronagraph and the Occulter, flew 150 metres ...

Vehicles drive on a highway with residential towers and the Milad telecommunications tower visible in the background in ...

A recent satellite photo captured a giant comma-shaped cloud of "Saharan dust" being blown above the Atlantic Ocean. The hazy ...

Southern astronomers get to see the Milky Way’s core overhead and enjoy many star clusters and nebulae that are hidden for us ...

A study published in Nature Astronomy suggests that there is a 50-50 chance of the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxy ...

A new book shows that the Northern Dene people of Alaska and Canada have known far more about the stars than an earlier ...

The remarkable life of the first American woman in space is profiled in this diverting but tame documentary. “Sally,” a welcome but unadventurous documentary about the astronaut Sally Ride ( who died ...

The first images from the ESA's Proba-3 mission have captured the Sun's mysterious corona by creating artificial eclipses in ...