Solar eclipses occur when the moon gets between Earth and the sun. This causes the moon to cast a shadow onto Earth. A solar ...

First artificial solar eclipse captured in orbit By Talker News Jun 17, 2025 Updated Jun 17, 2025 (ESA/NASA/Proba-2/Proba-3 et al. via SWNS) ...

The difference 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,” Zhukov explains in an ESA ...

The agency said the satellites, named Coronagraph and Occulter, flew 429 feet apart in perfect formation for "several hours" without being controlled from the ground to create the artificial eclipse.

Dubbed Proba-3, the $210 million mission has generated 10 successful solar eclipses so far during the ongoing checkout phase. The longest eclipse lasted five hours, said the Royal Observatory of ...

It's 429 days — just over 14 months — since April 8, 2024's "Great American Eclipse" across North America and 429 days until ...