The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole have been captured by the robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft. The European Space Agency (ESA) released images on Wednesday using three of Solar Orbiter's ...

“This is the longest continuous series of images ever created for a single active region: It’s a milestone in solar physics,” ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter, along with NASA's spacecraft, aids researchers in getting insights about NOAA 13664, the sun's active ...

The sun’s secret south pole has stepped into the light. For the first time, humanity has captured striking views of the sun’s mysterious polar region, thanks to the Solar Orbiter spacecraft. In a ...

Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles. Reading time 3 minutes For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter deep-space probe has made history, returning the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole. It's a world first that sheds a great deal of light on the mysteries of our parent star, ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission recently stunned the world with the first-ever full images of our Sun’s South pole, proving that this was going to be a mission like no other. Using ...

NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft is located on the Earth–Sun line, and it observes the Sun’s near side. By combining that near-side data with Solar Orbiter data, as NOAA 13664 faced away ...

The Solar Orbiter has been observing the sun since 2021, but it recently went on a side trip to Venus which significantly tilted its orbit and gave it a good view of the sun's polar region. That is ...