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

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 ...

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.

some solar science can be performed only during a total solar eclipse. Related: Eclipse from space: See the moon's shadow race across North America at 1,500 mph in epic satellite footage The sun's ...

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

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.

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