The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun’s two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth’s host star, including its magnetic ...

"The planet gets in the way from the point of view of any one spacecraft, so we had to spread them around the planet to look ...

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from NASA, Solar Orbiter launched in February 2020 and has been monitoring ...

At these distances, the satellites remain within Earth’s protective magnetic shield and can reliably measure the planet’s ...

Solar Orbiter, developed by ESA in collaboration with the US space agency NASA, was launched in 2020 from Florida.

Each orbit around the Sun, the spacecraft swings between solar latitudes of -17° and +17°, so it can study both the Sun’s south and north poles, and everything in between.

This image shows Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun's south pole on March 23, 2025. It was taken by the spacecraft's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument, which captures the ultraviolet light ...

Solar Cruiser, part of the SWIFT constellation, will measure solar wind at several vantage points for better interplanetary ...

Solar Orbiter used momentum from its flyby of Venus on February 18 to push itself out of the ecliptic plane that contains Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Around a month later, the spacecraft was ...

Solar Orbiter, developed by ESA in collaboration with the U.S. space agency NASA, was launched in 2020 from Florida.

The European Space Agency on Wednesday released images taken in March using three of Solar Orbiter's onboard instruments. They show the sun's south pole from a distance of about 40 million miles ...