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

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

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation cou ...

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

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

Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

A graduate research assistant at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama system, has published a paper in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics that builds on ...