The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the ...

While studying data from ESA's Solar Orbiter space mission, a research team has discovered a new type of solar wind that ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on ...

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 video was taken by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only instrument capable of seeing such subtle features of the ...

The Solar Orbiter's image of the Sun taken by its Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on May 30 was the closest any solar telescope had been. Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team/ ESA & NASA; CSL, IAS ...

A mission years in the planning and building took its next great leap Sunday evening as the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter blasts off on a 7-year mission to study the Sun. The probe ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

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.

W HERE IS THE best place to build a data centre? Not on Earth at all, but in orbit, claims Philip Johnston, chief executive ...

Astronomers have discovered two new exoplanets that are similar to other worlds found in the Milky Way, but unlike any in our ...