The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

The Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first look at the south pole of the sun, revealing messy magnetic fields and ...

ESA has just released the first-ever images taken of the Sun's south pole, as seen this year by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and ...

One such discovery made regarding the Sun’s magnetic field is that, at the solar south pole, the Sun’s magnetic field is ...

The first images of an artificial solar eclipse from ESA's Proba-3 mission have been unveiled. Total solar eclipses are rare, ...

Prior to the ESA releasing the photos, any image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around its equator. The Solar Orbiter launched February 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...

The ESA has finally captured photos of the Sun's south pole, unlocking the door to how our Sun's magnetic field works.

ESA’s Solar Orbiter probe captured the first clear images of the Sun's south pole, revealing new details about solar activity ...