The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has achieved a groundbreaking milestone by capturing the first-ever ...

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to the European Space Agency s Solar Orbiter and its tilted orbit, scientists ...

A large number of spacecraft have been sent to space over the years to study the star in our solar system, but they all tended to follow the same recipe: they lined up in orbit around the Sun within a ...

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

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In a striking new view from space, the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has given scientists their first close-up glimpse of the sun's magnetic field near its south pole — and it is behaving in ...