NASA’s Perseverance rover captures video of solar eclipse on Mars. The Mastcam-Z camera recorded video of Phobos, one of the ...

A pair of European satellites are creating artificial solar eclipses to provide hours of on-demand totality for scientists.

That's why space agencies have developed over the years a series of instruments and techniques meant to make solar observations a bit easier to perform. None of them, however, are as impressive as ...

Two European satellites took photographs of a recent experiment, taken while facing the sun, where they mimicked the circumstances that cause a total solar eclipse. Launched last year, the Proba-3 ...

Total solar eclipses – when the Sun, Moon and Earth are perfectly aligned – are rare. While they occur roughly every 18 months somewhere on Earth, they grace the same spot only once every 360 ...

The biggest difference, Zhukov adds, "is that we can create our eclipse once every 19.6-hour orbit, while total solar eclipses only occur naturally around once, very rarely twice a year.

The sun's outer atmosphere, known as the corona, appears in an artificial solar eclipse on May 23, 2025. It is artificially colored to appear purple in this image.

Incredible images show the first artificial solar eclipse in orbit. The European Space Agency's (ESA) Proba-3 mission involves two satellites flying in precise formation, with one spacecraft ...

Two European satellites created an "artificial total solar eclipse" in space, the European Space Agency announced June 16, delivering data that will improve scientists' understanding of the sun ...