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Amazing Solar Orbiter Views Of Mercury Transiting The Sun
ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...
Solar Orbiter Just Solved a Major Mystery About the Sun
Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...
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Imperial Solar Orbiter Team Celebrates 5 Years Studying Sun
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 ...
Scientists spot tiny sun jets driving fast and slow solar wind
In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be powering the solar wind. The team behind this research has now used even ...
Say hello to the moon in stunning footage as Blue Ghost enters lunar orbit
Aiming to be just the second ever commercial soft landing on the moon, the Blue Ghost mission has arrived in lunar orbit - and captured some incredible views.
How space missions make discoveries on the way to their main destinations
To get somewhere in outer space, you can’t exactly drive in a straight line. Orbits are tricky things, and sending a probe to ...
There's still time to see the 'planet parade' that began in January: Here's what's visible
Four planets will be widely visible to the naked eye through part of February, but calling them a 'planetary alignment' may not be the full picture.
An asteroid could hit Earth in 7 years. Here's how astronomers are tracking it
Over the next several weeks, astronomers will be looking closely at an asteroid called 2024 YR4 that could be as big as a ...
Scientists discover a 'super Earth' 20 light-years away outside our solar system that orbits a Sun-like star
Earth, HD 20794 d, orbiting a nearby sun-like star, offering a promising lead in the search for life beyond our planet.