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 ...

ESA has found a way to make its own solar eclipses more or less on demand and all it took was a pair of robotic spacecraft flying in a formation precise to within a millimeter of each other thousands ...

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 ...