ESA’s Solar Orbiter should solve the longstanding puzzle about why the Sun’s outer corona is so much hotter than its surface.

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took the image near the Sun on March 23, 2025, and it was announced on June 11, 2025.

Only Ulysses, a joint mission of the European and American space agencies ESA and NASA, flew over the Sun's poles several times between 1990 and 2009, albeit from a much greater distance than Solar ...

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

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, providing hours of on-demand totality for scientists.Related video above ...

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

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun’s two poles as scientists seek a ...

Solar Orbiter - world first views of Sun's south pole - now for the first time ever, we can clearly see the Sun’s unexplored ...