A pair of spacecraft are launching on a mission to observe the sun's corona by having one cast a precise shadow from which ...

Composite images reveal how the sun's corona changed from one total solar eclipse to another in 2023 and 2024, just as solar ...

A PAIR of satellites will work to blot out the Sun – all in a bid to solve puzzling space mysteries. It’s part of the Proba-3 ...

As the space station soared some 250 miles above Lake Michigan, Nasa astronaut Don Pettit captured this long-exposure ...

On the morning of December 5, a pair of satellites ascended into the skies from India’s eastern coast. Their mission? To cast ...

The European Space Agency launches Proba-3 to create an artificial solar eclipse and study the sun ... (55 inches), which will cast a controlled shadow onto the Coronagraph spacecraft.

The central, dark image depicts the total solar eclipse of March 9, 2016, as seen from Earth, with the Sun's light obscured by the dark silhouette of the Moon.

NASA astronauts aboard the space station captured stunning views of auroras, lunar crescents, red sprites, plant studies, ...

A European mission launched from India on Thursday, aiming to catch a rare glimpse of the Sun's mysterious atmosphere by ...

For spectators, total solar eclipses – such as the one that dazzled millions in April across North America – represent ...

India has launched two European satellites into space with the objective of creating something akin to a solar eclipse to ...

aiming to catch a rare glimpse of the Sun's mysterious atmosphere by imitating a solar eclipse using two satellites flying with millimetre-level precision. The European Space Agency's Proba-3 ...