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

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have ...

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles. Reading time 3 minutes For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have ...

Plenty of spacecraft and telescopes have throughout the years been able to observe the sun up close – with plenty more missions on the way. In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer ...

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

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The Solar Orbiter launched from Cape Canaveral and began its journey to get a close, unprecedented look at our star. The mission, which is a joint collaboration between NASA and ...

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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, ...

The agency last heard from the MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) orbiter on December 6, and the last fragment of tracking data recovered by engineers indicated that the probe was tumbling ...