In a dazzling first, two European spacecraft —flying in millimeter-perfect formation — have created an artificial solar ...

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

Faculty of Physics, together with colleagues from Poland and other countries, have identified an exoplanet—a gas giant ...

Solange has long been a world-building architect in her own right. She’s the founder of Saint Heron, a multidisciplinary ...

DECATUR — For all those who have long harbored a desire to stand outside and gaze upon the impressive shadow cast by their own gnomon, take heart: your time may be nigh.

The European Space Agency’s Proba-3 mission satellites aligned to cause a solar eclipse that helped record and study the ...

A new study suggests they may have a ghostly shadow—trailing dark matter spirals hovering above and below them. A team of ...

While flying in this exact configuration, they blocked the Sun’s bright center by aligning a circular disc on the Occulter spacecraft in front of the Sun—creating a small but powerful shadow. That ...

ESA twin satellites create artificial eclipses to observe the sun corona The sun’s corona was clearly visible without special ...

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

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar eclipses in space with its Proba-3 mission.