"Today we reveal humankind's first-ever views of the Sun's pole," said Carole Mundell, the ESA's director of science, in a statement. "These new unique views from our Solar Orbiter mission are the ...

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.

Data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of small galaxies that played a starring role in a cosmic ...

NASA’s CODEX experiment, now operating aboard the International Space Station, has just delivered never-before-seen images of the Sun’s outer atmosphere. NASA’s CODEX mission has captured stunning new ...

“We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” added Professor Sami Solanki, who leads the PHI instrument team from the Max ...

A near-complete census of our interstellar neighborhood hopes to answer how stars, brown dwarfs and rogue planets form ...

Learn how the European Space Agency's spacecraft captured a completely new view of the Sun, thanks to its novel tilted orbit.

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

The entire Space Orbiter mission reportedly cost a mammoth $1.5 billion, and was in development for more than a decade before ...

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

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...