It has been a dream of astronomers and solar scientists for ages. A new mission gives solar researchers a powerful new tool ...
A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists. The European Space Agency ...
New observations from the Proba-3 mission show the slow solar wind accelerates much earlier than expected, offering fresh insight into how it forms near the Sun ...
On Earth, total solar eclipses are relatively rare celestial phenomena. Months often pass between them, and even then, astronomers and stargazers have to travel around the globe to witness them. For ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) wants to bring the sort of precision normally associated with Swiss watch making to satellite navigation. When it launches in 2017, ESA’s Proba-3 mission will ...
Since July 2025, the European Space Agency's pair of Proba-3 satellites has already created 57 artificial solar eclipses. So far, the mission has collected more than 250 hours of high-resolution ...
When the ESA’s Proba-V was launched on May 7, its main mission was to map land cover and vegetation growth across the entire surface of the Earth every two days. But the miniaturized ESA satellite is ...
Ty Roush is a breaking news reporter based in New York City. A pair of satellites launched by the European Space Agency on Thursday will create the first artificial solar eclipses, allowing scientists ...
Packed with novel devices and science instruments, Proba-2 is demonstrating technologies for future ESA missions while providing new views of our Sun. At a press conference on Tuesday at the Royal ...
PARIS — After months of launcher-related delays, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS) Earth observation satellite and the Proba-2 technology ...