Only Ulysses, a joint mission of the European and American space agencies ESA and NASA, flew over the Sun's poles several times between 1990 and 2009, albeit from a much greater distance than Solar ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.

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