While studying data from ESA's Solar Orbiter space mission, a research team has discovered a new type of solar wind that ...

The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the ...

A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA have released the first pictures and preliminary findings captured by the Solar Orbiter, including intriguing glimpses of “campfires” near the solar ...

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on ...

The video was taken by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only instrument capable of seeing such subtle features of the ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter captured a massive plasma spiral extending millions of kilometres, revealing swirling solar wind patterns ...

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission is the first to capture on camera this wind flying out from the sun in a ...

W HERE IS THE best place to build a data centre? Not on Earth at all, but in orbit, claims Philip Johnston, chief executive ...

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million ...

When the video was recorded, ESA's Solar Orbiter was the only probe capable of capturing solar wind in such great detail. However, ESA's Proba-3 mission, which launched in December 2024, is also ...