Scientists have come a step closer to identifying the mysterious origins of the "slow" solar wind, using data collected during the Solar Orbiter spacecraft's first close journey to the sun. Solar wind ...

The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole have been captured by the robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The European Space Agency (ESA) released images on Wednesday using three of Solar Orbiter's ...

The European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter mission has split the flood of energetic particles flung out into space from the sun into two groups, tracing each back to a different kind of outburst from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The sun’s secret south pole has stepped into the light. For the first time, humanity has captured striking views of the sun’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ...

In October 2019, after undergoing final testing in Germany, the Solar Orbiter was on its way to NASA’s Cape Canaveral launch site in Florida. Now, the countdown to the launch is just a matter of a ...

Scientists said Thursday they had obtained the closest ever images taken of the Sun as part of a pan-European mission to study solar winds and flares that could have far-reaching impacts back on Earth ...

The first images from Solar Orbiter, a new Sun-observing mission by ESA and NASA, have revealed omnipresent miniature solar flares, dubbed ‘campfires,’ near the surface of our closest star. According ...

Solar Orbiter, a new collaborative mission between ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA to study the Sun, launched at 11:03 p.m. EST Sunday on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch ...

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.