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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

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.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe, for example, swoops just a few million miles away from the sun's surface, gathering data about the fiery environment there. But then retreats beyond the orbit of Venus ...