Launched in February 2020, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter probe has been looping around the Sun with a special purpose in mind: Studying the poles of our star. The planets orbit ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

But by tilting the Solar Orbiter's orbit out of that plane, the ESA was able to reveal the sun from a brand new angle. The process began in February 2025 when the Solar Orbiter passed closely by ...

The Solar Orbiter space mission, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has for the first time ...

MOSCOW, July 12 (Xinhua) -- The sun's activity has increased approximately threefold compared to the average values for July, with 17 flares occurring in less than two days, Russian solar researchers ...

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Astronomers are scrambling to gather data on a mysterious object that’s currently hurtling through the solar system.

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

Total solar eclipse as viewed from Earth in 2023. Miloslav Druckmuller, Shadia Habbal, Pavel Starha The study of the solar ...