The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Solar Orbiter mission has obtained a stunning high-res image of the sun's upper atmosphere.

New images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft are giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun’s volatile lower atmosphere and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind solar eruptions ...

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Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.

Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...

ESA has compiled the largest image of our sun to date from 200 individual images taken by the Solar Orbiter. It shows the ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

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

The solar wind. Image: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/Metis & EUI Teams, V. Andretta and P. Romano/INAF Behold, the piping host particles of solar wind streaming from our Sun, caught in new footage from ...

Here’s a little spoiler for next month’s Cosmic Calendar: early May will see the return of the Eta Aquarid meteor shower. The ...