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

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

Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission ...

It is basically a coronagraph that blocks the Sun to observe its corona (outermost atmospheric solar layer) which is full of ...

The Milky Way-mapper Gaia telescope is being switched off today. The European Space Agency (ESA) said on March 27 that Gaia's ...

When the video was recorded, ESA's Solar Orbiter was the only probe capable of capturing solar wind in such great detail. However, ESA's Proba-3 mission, which launched in December 2024, is also ...

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

Far from a simple switch-off, the ESA says the process involved guiding the spacecraft into a stable solar orbit and methodically disabling its systems. Gaia’s robust design made this a ...