The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with ...

Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

Scientists discovered tiny jets on the Sun that power both fast and slow solar wind. These jets eject particles and shape ...

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar wind. Scientists have now confirmed that these fleeting bursts of energy ...

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

In combination with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, which was launched in 2018, the ESA Solar Orbiter will seek to gain new understanding and information about how the solar wind is generated ...

The Sun’s south pole as seen by the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft on 30 March 2022, just four ... [+] days after the spacecraft passed its closest point yet to the Sun. It’s superbly ...

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’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 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a journey. Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree ...

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 ...