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

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

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami Solanki, who leads the PHI instrument team from the Max Planck Institute for ...

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 ...

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

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.

The Facility for Laboratory Reconnection Experiments (FLARE) represents the next generation of research into fundamental ...

Magnetic reconnection, originating from solar flares, sends charged particles towards Earth, threatening communication ...

The moon may be silent and still today, but billions of years ago, it likely crackled with magnetic activity. Though the moon ...

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

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 ...

A satellite launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) has captured the first ever images of the sun's south pole.