"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

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

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

Escaping the ecliptic plane takes some doing, by which I mean a lot of very expensive rocket fuel. The Solar Orbiter used Venus's gravity to help pull it out of the usual equatorial orbit around ...

The plane of the ecliptic — the path of the planets in our sky — surrounds Earth. If Earth was transparent, we could see all the planets that were not lost in the sun’s glare, ...

HELSINKI — China plans to send a space observatory out of the plane of the ecliptic for a mission to study the poles of the sun. The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory is currently scheduled to ...

Observations from a triangular arrangement of radio receivers (on 81.5 Mc/s) suggest that the solar wind is faster over the solar poles than in the plane of the ecliptic.