The Solar Orbiter is the first spacecraft to study the Sun's poles - and finds the magnetic field in a state of flip ...

A giant hole has opened in the atmosphere of the Sun, and it's blasting out a high-speed wind that is directed right at Earth ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from ...

Learn about the unexpected discovery that has shaped new perspectives on Uranus' moons and their brightness.

Based on data from NASA's Voyager 2 flyby in 1986 and decades of modeling, scientists expected the trailing hemispheres of ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

A supermassive black hole in the early Universe has been spotted blasting out powerful jets of plasma that are at least twice ...

The first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could ...

Instead, they found no evidence for darkening on the moons’ trailing sides, and clear evidence for darkening of the leading ...

Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead.

For the first time, scientists have imaged the elusive south pole of the sun. The images captured by the Solar Orbiter ...