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

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A NASA spacecraft is making a close approach to the sun, repeating its record-breaking distance of 3.8 million miles from the ...

Astronomers have produced the first continuous, two-dimensional maps of the outer edge of the sun's atmosphere, a shifting, ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter reveals the dynamics of the Sun's magnetic field, shedding light on the 11-year solar activity cycle.

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On 2 December 1995, the ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) blasted into space—on what was supposed to be a ...

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These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout the solar system. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according to ESA. See it "slither" in these time-lapsed views. Credit: ESA & ...

The comet is the third object ever confirmed to have entered our cosmic neighborhood from elsewhere in the galaxy. Space ...

A spectacular total solar eclipse, one of the century's longest, will plunge parts of Spain, North Africa, and the Middle ...