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

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

A spectacular solar feature has been caught in action by the Solar Orbiter mission. On March 17, 2025, the spacecraft recorded a striking solar prominence as it hovered over the Sun’s limb. The ...

Plenty of spacecraft and telescopes have throughout the years been able to observe the sun up close – with plenty more missions on the way. In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer ...

For thirty years, SOHO has delivered an unprecedented, nearly unbroken view of the Sun, surviving multiple near-catastrophic ...

These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists have ...

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

(Reuters) -The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter made its first close pass of the sun on Monday, getting as close as 48 million miles from the sun's surface. The spacecraft's first perihelion, the point in ...