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 spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

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

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a ...

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...

Learn how the European Space Agency’s spacecraft captured a completely new view of the Sun, thanks to its novel tilted orbit.

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

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

The ESA has finally captured photos of the Sun's south pole, unlocking the door to how our Sun's magnetic field works.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

Images of the north pole are ... views of the sun have come from the same vantage point - looking face-on toward its equator from the plane on which Earth and most of the solar system's other ...