"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...

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

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 ...

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

Before arriving at the moon, the small satellite mission will use the gravity of the sun, Earth, and moon over several months ...

New observations from Solar Orbiter confirm tiny plasma jets play a key role in both fast and slow solar wind.

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 sun. Anyone who saw the sun’s corona with their naked eyes ...

A mission years in the planning and building took its next great leap Sunday evening as the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter blasts off on a 7-year mission to study the Sun. The probe ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a journey. Having launched in February 2020, the Christmas Tree-sized spacecraft has been looping around the sun, getting ever closer ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

As the Where Is Starman? website shows, the Roadster never reached escape velocity from the Sun’s gravity, meaning that it’s still zipping around in an orbit around our day star. Exposed to ...