The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is ...

In January 2025, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune were all visible in the night sky. And in February, 2025, ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar wind. Scientists have now confirmed that these fleeting bursts of energy ...

The above 40-second video is sped-up footage of the new-found jets flashing briefly near the Sun’s south pole. In reality, ...

A fierce solar storm in May 2024 did more than disrupt GPS — it created two new radiation belts. A revived CubeSat captured ...

Solar scientists have found tiny, short-lived jets of energy on our sun to be the primary drivers of the solar wind, marking ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

Scientists discovered tiny jets on the Sun that power both fast and slow solar wind. These jets eject particles and shape ...

Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earth’s orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back the first video of the sun from just two-thirds of the distance between the Earth and ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything we’ve sent to study our star on purpose, and the pictures it took last year were from less than 46 million miles away.