For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

NASA captured an image of the sun emitting a powerful solar flare that could interfere with technology on Earth.

The Solar Orbiter is the first spacecraft to study the Sun's poles - and finds the magnetic field in a state of flip ...

One such discovery made regarding the Sun’s magnetic field is that, at the solar south pole, the Sun’s magnetic field is ...

The south pole of the Sun, photographed by the Extreme Ultraviolet Imager instrument aboard Solar Orbiter on 30 March 2022. © ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team The Sun’s poles are of particular ...

Discover how the ESA's Solar Orbiter captured the first direct images of the Sun's south pole, revealing new insights into its magnetic field and solar cycles. Learn about the mission, instruments, ...

Using the world's largest solar telescope, a team of scientists has captured one of the most detailed views ever of a ...

The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

The stripes, called striations, ripple across the walls of solar granules—convection cells in the Sun’s photosphere where hot ...

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...