Every image you've ever seen of the sun is looking at its equator, because Earth's orbit sits there with a 7.25-degree tilt.

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

A NASA mission to observe the activity of the solar wind has returned its first images of giant coronal mass ejections (CMEs) ...

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

Virtually all space probes that explore the sun from space view our star from the ecliptic. This is the plane in which the ...

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

The sun's south pole has been seen for the first time from outside the ecliptic plane in unprecedented images sent back to ...

Confusingly, the magnetic north and south poles are both down there, where the Solar Orbiter can see them Occupants of planet ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

Use precise geolocation data. Actively scan device characteristics for identification. Store and/or access information on a ...

Radio signals sent between two Mars orbiters—rather than between an orbiter and an Earth-based receiver—capture new insights into atmospheric dynamics.