Mumbai's Khagol Mandal transforms superstition into fascination for astronomy through education, outreach, and skygazing ...

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

Strange things happen during a total solar eclipse. The air temperature suddenly decreases as darkness falls, confusing ...

It currently sits around 420 million miles (or 670 million kilometres) from Earth. Astronomers have since confirmed its ...

For hundreds of years, the only time mankind could see the Sun’s corona, which is the highly hot and ethereal outer ...

In coordination with researchers from NASA and the University of Michigan, high school students across the country are ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission uses twin satellites to create artificial solar eclipses in space, capturing detailed images of the Sun ...

In a revolutionary move that is bound to “transform solar observing”, the European Space Agency 's (ESA) Proba-3 has already imaged the first artificial solar eclipse in space after two of the ...

Credit: ESA-P. Carril ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar eclipses on demand. Their first artificial eclipse ...

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 ...

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 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 ...