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

Because Earth moves in an elliptical orbit around the sun, being further away means it travels slower along its orbit. This ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter should solve the longstanding puzzle about why the Sun’s outer corona is so much hotter than its surface.

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is ...

“We also find an approximately 0.3 percent chance that Mars will be lost through collision or ejection and an approximately 0 ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took the image near the Sun on March 23, 2025, and it was announced on June 11, 2025.

After nearly 20 years of operations, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is on a roll, performing a new maneuver to ...

Recent observations have revealed carbon monoxide venting from the largest comet ever seen, providing clues about its origins ...

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses by flying in precise and fancy formation, ...

What does an artificial eclipse look like? One space agency's satellites recently accomplished this task as part of a mission ...