The Proba-3 mission, consisting of two spacecraft that fly in close formation to study the sun, has returned images of the ...

We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

The Solar Orbiter, a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, captured detailed images of the sun’s southern region in March, something no other probe has done at close range.

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

As ESA inclined the orbit of the Solar Orbiter relative to the orbital plane, the probe could observe the south pole of the ...

Discover how the ESA's Solar Orbiter captured the first direct images of the Sun's south pole, revealing new insights into ...

New images from the JWST are about as close as we've ever come to seeing the sky of an alien world outside the Solar System.

NASA's Parker Solar Probe has made a groundbreaking discovery, observing an unprecedented plasma explosion in the Sun's corona. This rare event produced a sunward jet of particles, with protons ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...