ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far. Today's flyby will be the first to significantly "tilt" the ...

Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is now leaving the orbital plane. After a particularly close flyby of ...

The Solar Polar Orbit Observatory is currently scheduled to launch in 2029. The spacecraft will perform a gravity assist maneuver at Jupiter, altering its course to enter a high-inclination orbit ...

The researchers' ... Mystery of 'Slow' Solar Wind Unveiled by Solar Orbiter Mission May 28, 2024 — Scientists have come a step closer to identifying the mysterious origins of the 'slow' solar ...

Astronomers have identified a quartet of small rocky planets orbiting Barnard's star - one of our closest stellar neighbors - ...

Following a successful launch in the early hours of Wednesday morning (12 March 2025) U.K. time, the PUNCH spacecraft are ...

The objects around the ringed planet are tiny, but some of them may have formed relatively recently in the solar system’s ...

The solar array isn’t the only plan China has for space research—it also plans to reach the Moon and build an International ...

However, as more observations have taken place, YR4’s projected orbit around the sun has been narrowed down, with the Earth’s own solar orbit still within its possible path. Back in January ...

As the agency's SPHEREx space telescope and PUNCH solar mission rode toward their orbital stations tonight (March 11) at ...