ESA's Solar Orbiter, along with NASA's spacecraft, aids researchers in getting insights about NOAA 13664, the sun's active ...

The sun’s secret south pole has stepped into the light. For the first time, humanity has captured striking views of the sun’s mysterious polar region, thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. In a ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas called ...

We live with this star, so it’s really important we observe it and try to understand how it works and how it affects our ...

Learn about the longest observation of an active solar region, a feat that could start a path to improved solar storm ...

Prior to the ESA releasing the photos, any image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around its equator. The Solar Orbiter launched February 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...

Five years into its mission, Solar Orbiter stuns again with this detailed view of the Sun. What you see is the Sun’s million-degree hot atmosphere, called the corona, as it looks in ultraviolet light.

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter made its first close pass of the sun on Monday, getting as close as 77 million kilometers (48 million miles) from the sun's surface. The European Space Agency ...

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, ...

Editor’s Note: Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. The Solar Orbiter mission has discovered ...

So-called 'picojets' spotted by ESA's Solar Orbiter could be feeding high-speed gas outflows from the sun in the form of both energy and matter. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Here's how the astronomical phenomenon influences our planet—from the length of our seasons to the way Earth moves through ...