CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A pair of European satellites rocketed into orbit Thursday on the first mission to create artificial solar eclipses through fancy formation flying in space. Each fake eclipse ...

The European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission utilizes two spacecraft to create an artificial solar eclipse, enabling observation of the Sun's corona, which is typically obscured by the Sun's brightness ...

For many centuries, the Sun has been one of the most recognisable but least understood phenomena in our sky. While it has been visible to us as a constant, glowing ball of light in the sky, the ...