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.

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

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 ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...

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

"We almost couldn’t believe our eyes,” one of the researchers said. “This was the first try, and it worked. It was so ...

New images are key to understanding solar magnetic storms and other space weather that can disrupt systems on Earth.

The image, captured by NASA ’s Mars Odyssey orbiter, is the first of its kind: a volcano on the Red Planet seen on the ...