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

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 ...

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 magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...

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

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team, J. Hirzberger (MPS) If you’re thinking the pole of the Sun so far looks pretty much like the rest of our star — here’s where things change.