Europe has just run its most extreme space weather simulation yet — a scenario so severe that no spacecraft was left ...

The ESA is trying to raise awareness of the Earth's alarming lack of preparation for the worst possible solar events.

Solar Orbiter's view of the Sun from an angle of 17 degrees below the solar equator. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have journeyed through ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So count your lucky stars: for the first time in history, scientists 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 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 made its first close pass of the sun on Monday, getting as close as 48 million miles from the sun's surface. The spacecraft's first perihelion, the point in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Solar Orbiter took the first-ever images of the Sun's poles. These images show the Sun's corona, a superheated outer atmosphere. The images also reveal the complex movement of solar material. The ...

(Reuters) -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 ...