The Solar Orbiter, a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, captured detailed images of the sun’s southern region in March, something no other probe has done at close range.

Earth's magnetic field and oxygen levels have increased more or less in parallel over the past 540 million years, suggesting ...

NASA is launching rockets from a remote Pacific island to study mysterious, high-altitude cloud-like structures that can disrupt critical communication systems. The mission, called Sporadic-E ...

The European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft has delivered the first-ever close-up images of the Sun's ...

The Solar Orbiter has been observing the sun since 2021, but it recently went on a side trip to Venus which significantly tilted its orbit and gave it a good view of the sun's polar region. That is ...

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

ESA has just released the first-ever images taken of the Sun's south pole, as seen this year by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

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North wasn’t always “up” on world maps. North doesn't always mean "up" when it comes to geophysics. Scientists have known for ...

The North Pole Patriots entered the Mid Alaska Conference championship with momentum, having won their previous three games by double digits. They maintained that dominance with a 15-0 run-rule ...

Each atom in a piece of iron is a magnet, with a north pole and a south pole. Most pieces of iron are not magnetic, because the atomic magnets all point in different directions. When you bring a ...

This will officially move the magnetic North Pole closer to Siberia, from 1 January 2025. Unlike 'true north', which is the direction that points directly towards the geographic North Pole ...