Launched in February 2020, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter probe has been looping around the Sun with a special purpose in mind: Studying the poles of our star. The planets orbit ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution views of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views ...

New videos captured by the ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter showcase the Sun in a brand-new light. The videos were captured during the probe’s first close perihelion passages.

Here’s how it works. The sun-observing Solar Orbiter spacecraft makes regular flybys at Venus, taking measurements of the planet's magnetic field as a side project.(Image credit: ESA) ...

The first coronal mass ejection, or CME, observed by the Solar Orbiter Heliospheric Imager, appears as a sudden gust of white. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/SoloHI team/NRL Solar storms can brew ...

August 24, 2023 - 6:00 pm A spacecraft has detected tiny jets that could be the elusive source of the sun’s solar wind. The discovery was made by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter.

The same coronal mass ejection Solar Orbiter’s SoloHI instrument observed, captured by NASA’s Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory-A — one of two spacecraft launched in 2006.

While the capturing of the video is wonderful enough in its own right, the event allowed the ESA to tweak its instruments aboard the Solar Orbiter to allow it to capture even better photos and ...

Solar Orbiter is an international collaboration between the European Space Agency, or ESA, and NASA, to study our closest star, the Sun. Launched on Feb. 9, 2020 (EST), the spacecraft completed ...

Solar Orbiter, a mission to study the sun from NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), recently took an image of the sun showing a dramatic solar prominence as it happened.

NASA and the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft captured incredible footage of Venus as it flew past the planet. The Solar Orbiter passed within 4,967 miles of the planet's ...