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

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.

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

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

Flying 492 feet apart, one satellite blocks the sun like the moon does during a natural total solar eclipse as the other aims ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...

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