The February 10 date is doubly important. First, that is the date in 2020 that the solar probe was launched, so “Solo” is now one-year-old. February 10 is important for another reason, too, It was the ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the spacecraft captured the imagery. Credit: Space.com | footage & orbit animation ...

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft has discovered that a solar flare is triggered by initially weak ...

Once Solar Orbiter – called SolO, for short – arrived in the United States, it was taken to Astrotech Corporation’s facility where technicians encapsulated the Solar Orbiter spacecraft — designed with ...