The M-class flare was accompanied by a coronal mass ejection currently forecast to land Earth with a glancing blow on June 18 ...

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

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

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

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the ...

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

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

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

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...

Today, the European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission unveils its first images of the sun's outer atmosphere—the solar corona.

When the Sun runs expands into a red giant, it will swallow the inner solar system and raise the temperature in the outer ...