Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

One of six remote sensing instruments aboard the solar orbiter, it is designed to take high-resolution images of the lower layers of the Sun’s atmosphere, known as the Solar Corona.

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, pulling data from its Solar Orbiter probe, which it runs with NASA.

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

The category X14 flare is the 7th-strongest recorded with modern instruments by one measure ... The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter was in position to take a direct hit from the flare ...

Cue Solar Orbiter, launched in 2020, has 10 scientific instruments that allow for making many unique observations. They include the first telescope observations from close to the Sun, the first ...

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.

Imperial's Professor Tim Horbury and Helen O'Brien are celebrating the impact of the Solar Orbiter as they mark five years since it first ...

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.