Solar Orbiter is ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) first medium class mission with strong partnership from NASA. Part of the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Programme, the science platform has now ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA have released the first pictures and preliminary findings captured by the Solar Orbiter, including intriguing glimpses of “campfires” near the solar ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far. Today's flyby will be the first to significantly "tilt" the ...

Now, the ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter has captured a particularly interesting Mercury transit on video, giving astronomers important data. While the video of Mercury’s transit across the Sun ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything ... each picture it took was just a small part of the sun’s surface. ESA stitched together multiple images to form ...

A solar probe designed to study the sun's most mysterious and unknown regions launches on a 10-year journey. Jackson Ryan Former Science Editor Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything ... each picture it took was just a small part of the sun’s surface. ESA stitched together multiple images to form ...

To reach their conclusions, Chitta and his colleagues studied data collected by Solar Orbiter in late 2022 and ... back to those exact same jets," ESA wrote in a statement. "This is the first ...

The Indian spacecraft Aditya L1 captures stunning images of a powerful solar flare, enhancing our understanding of solar ...