There have never been so many satellites orbiting Earth as there are today, thanks in part to the launch of mega ...

The Solar Orbiter's Extreme Ultraviolet Imager (EUI) instrument captured imagery of the sun over the last few years. The ...

A new series of images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun's volatile lower atmosphere-and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind ...

A new series of images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun's volatile lower atmosphere-and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind solar ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter is studying the Sun like never before. Just two months ago, it used Venus to leave the plane of the Solar System. It is now on a slanted orbit that will ...

ESA has compiled the largest image of our sun to date from 200 individual images taken by the Solar Orbiter. It shows the star in ultraviolet light. Europe's space probe for exploring the sun has ...

Five years into its mission, Solar Orbiter stuns again with this detailed view of the Sun. What you see is the Sun’s million-degree hot atmosphere, called the corona, as it looks in ultraviolet ...

The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the Sun. A Southwest Research Institute-led team of scientists sought the ...

Once again, the Solar Orbiter has flown close to Venus. This time, however, the probe was deflected in such a way that it is now leaving the orbital plane. After a particularly close flyby of ...

Solar Orbiter captured images of tiny jets of material escaping from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team For nearly five years, a Sun-observing probe has been making ...