The sun is always mesmerizing to watch, but Solar Orbiter captured a special treat on camera: a dark 'prominence' sticking ...

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

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

In a striking new view from space, the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has given scientists their first close-up ...

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing cluster of objects in the Kuiper belt, an enormous, donut-shaped region of icy objects ...

Tossing a bad guy into the Sun sounds simple enough, but orbital mechanics make it a far trickier task than you'd expect.

ESA's ExoMars orbiter has tracked interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS at unprecedented speed, refining its trajectory and offering ...

NASA’s Europa Clipper and Europe’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer—will observe the comet on its trip back out of the solar system ...

In March, ESA's spacecraft Solar Orbiter had its first clear view of the Sun’s south pole. A first analysis has now been published. Huge cells of hot plasma cover the Sun and create the large-scale, ...

It's possibly as big as Manhattan, likely older than our own solar system, and it's traveling through space at speeds of up ...

Astronomers using the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton space observatory and the LOFAR telescope have definitively spotted ...

"Similar to the asteroid belt, the Kuiper Belt is a region of leftovers from the solar system's early history. Like the ...