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.

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 Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space Agency (ESA). Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter ...

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 ...

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

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back the first video of the sun from just two-thirds of the distance between the Earth and ...

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.

Solar Orbiter captured images of tiny jets of material escaping from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team For nearly five years, a Sun-observing probe has been making ...

Europe's grand mission to understand the detailed workings of the Sun is all but ready for launch. Solar Orbiter has been enclosed in its protective cover and mounted atop the rocket that will ...

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 ...