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

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, ...

Using the world's largest solar telescope, a team of scientists has captured one of the most detailed views ever of a ...

The spacecraft on the Sun-side is the Occulter, designed to block the solar disk for the Earth-side craft: the Coronagraph.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

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

Solar sails represent one of the most elegant concepts in space exploration: using sunlight itself to propel spacecraft ...

Defence experts have issued a warning to govenment officials over fears that Vladimir Putin could use dangerous sun-blocking ...

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

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

SINGAPORE] It is no secret that solar energy, once an alternative source of power, is now a mainstream reality. With the ...