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

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the ...

The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...

One such discovery made regarding the Sun’s magnetic field is that, at the solar south pole, the Sun’s magnetic field is ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar ...

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