For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to the European Space Agency s Solar Orbiter and its tilted orbit, scientists ...

China is setting up a big, long-term plan for its space science, moving into a faster development phase. New advancements in ...

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

In a precision flying formation, the European Space Agency (ESA) mission revealed new insights into the sun's mysterious ...

We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...

A problem which has persisted on the International Space Station (ISS) for a long time forced NASA to postpone Axiom Space 's ...

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

One such discovery made regarding the Sun’s magnetic field is that, at the solar south pole, the Sun’s magnetic field is quite a mess. Measurements from PHI showed that both north and south polarity ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according to ESA. See it "slither" in these time-lapsed views. Credit: ESA & ...

An intense solar eruption recently triggered a rare "severe geomagnetic storm" alert for Earth, with the U.S. Naval Research ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter deep-space probe has made history, returning the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole. It's a world first that sheds a great deal of light on the mysteries of our parent star, ...