ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

The Solar Orbiter's SPICE instrument provided another first for the ESA spacecraft, allowing scientists to track elements via their unique emissions as they move through the sun.

(Image credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI Team) The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star.

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB) The science team used three instruments aboard Solar Orbiter to capture images of the Sun between March 16 and 17.

New research led by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) has confirmed decades-old theoretical models about magnetic ...

Built by Airbus in the UK, Solar Orbiter was developed as part of a joint mission between the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA. The probe launched on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 411 ...

The video, which was released March 26 by the European Space Agency (ESA), is sped-up footage originally taken over an eight-hour period on Oct. 12, 2022, by ESA's Solar Orbiter.

NASA's PUNCH (Polarimeter to Unify the Corona and Heliosphere) mission has completed its final orbit manoeuvres on August 7.

ESA's Solar Orbiter deep-space probe has made history, returning the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole. It's a world first that sheds a great deal of light on the mysteries of our parent ...

ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB) Solar Orbiter was launched in 2020, and since then has made a number of close approaches to the sun.

The imagery was taken by the ESA's Solar Orbiter, which began its trek to view the sun's polar regions in 2020.