In a daring maneuver, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA mission swooped below the solar system’s planetary plane to capture the sun’s elusive south pole. The spacecraft dipped 15 degrees ...

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

A team of chemists and astronomers have made a discovery in the field of astrochemistry: the identification of cyanocoronene, ...

A textile engineer at Heriot-Watt University has developed a new material to boost flexibility and comfort of personal ...

Coronal holes, dark regions observed in X-ray and extreme ultraviolet images of the Sun, are characterised ... interior and may form from the superposition of Alfven wave perturbations, respectively.

Astronomers have revealed the largest known structure in the universe, which is made up of not only clusters of galaxies but also clusters of these clusters that form ... sun and is more than 1.3 ...

about 1.3 billion light-years wide. The structure was named after the ancient Incan system of making knots with thread to record data. Quipu is massive, about 13,000 times the size of the Milky Way, ...

a cloud of particles streaming away from the Sun at speeds of up to 1.2 million mph (2 million km/hr). These are two of the core science objectives for the Proba-3 mission. But the project has a ...

This event will enable Parker to come within just over 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers ... This part of its structure is much hotter than the surface of the Sun, a mystery that the ...

India and European space agencies collaborate on Proba-3, the first precision formation flying mission to study the Sun's corona. The mission involves two small satellites creating an artificial ...