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

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back one of the most detailed images of our star so far on its ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in ...

It was taken by the Solar Orbiter, a satellite launched five years ago by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Nasa. Its mission is to take images of the Sun closer than any spacecraft has done before.

2025 — The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists ...

Aditya-L1, a new solar observatory launched in 2023, wasted no time proving its worth. Just a few months after it was ...

including the Solar Orbiter, a joint mission of the European Space Agency and NASA launched in 2020, and NASA’s Parker Solar Probe, the first spacecraft to “touch” the sun.

A spaceship has captured its most detailed picture of the Sun ever - and it doesn't look happy. The Solar Orbiter produced its widest high-res view of our star, showing the million-degree hot ...