The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

That means all the spacecraft we launch into orbit tend to do so as well. 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.

When viewed from our little blue planet, the Sun appears as nothing more than a massive disc of light. However, thanks to the efforts of the Parker Solar Probe and other astronomical observations ...

Because Earth, like all the planets in our solar system, orbits the sun along a line across a flat, disc-shaped plane in the sky known as the ecliptic. That means all the spacecraft we launch into ...

The first time NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has observed a big magnetic burst in the sun’s corona, this event could fundamentally alter our understanding of solar storms and their impact on Earth ...

In an unprecedented achievement, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has reached a historic milestone: the spacecraft has successfully completed its third and final approach to within just 3.86 million ...

New research utilizing data from NASA's Parker Solar Probe has provided the first direct evidence of a phenomenon known as ...

Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Parker Solar Probe science and engineering team, a collaboration of scientists from the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), NASA, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics ...

A fascinating glimpse into how a solar system like our own is born has been revealed with the detection of planet-forming ...

The Proba-3 spacecraft succeed at creating solar eclipses, kicking off a two-year mission to study the sun’s mysterious outer atmosphere, the corona.