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

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

For the first time in history, we now have a clear view of the Sun’s poles, thanks to a bold new space maneuver. The European ...

The sun has been photographed and imaged many times, but never from the top or bottom.

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

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

A space probe has delivered world-first images of the Sun's south pole—and this is only the start towards deeper solar science.

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 ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft travelled 15 degrees below the sun's solar equator to take the images in mid-March - with the ...

On Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) released images captured by three instruments on board the Solar Orbiter. Taken ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter probe captured the first clear images of the Sun's south pole, revealing new details about solar activity ...