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

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

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

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 ...

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

Solar Orbiter has been enclosed in its protective cover and mounted atop the rocket that will hurl the satellite towards our star next weekend. SolO, for short, is a €1.5bn (£1.3bn) project of ...

If you're more of an auditory learner than a visual one, this timelapse video is for you. (And, well, visual learners will probably love it, too!) The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an ...

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 ...

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.

Now, a new analysis by Chitta and his team, using up-close data from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft, provides compelling evidence that these picoflares are also supplying ...