The NASA/ESA Solar Orbiter recently recorded the highest-ever concentration of a rare helium isotope (3He) emitted from the ...

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA have released the first pictures and preliminary findings captured by the Solar Orbiter, including intriguing glimpses of “campfires” near the solar ...

W HERE IS THE best place to build a data centre? Not on Earth at all, but in orbit, claims Philip Johnston, chief executive ...

The video was taken by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only instrument capable of seeing such subtle features of the ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything we’ve sent to study our star on purpose, and the pictures it took last year were from less than 46 million miles away.

Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter captured a massive plasma spiral extending millions of kilometres, revealing swirling solar wind patterns ...

The Solar Orbiter's image of the Sun taken by its Extreme Ultraviolet Imager on May 30 was the closest any solar telescope had been. Credit: Solar Orbiter/EUI Team/ ESA & NASA; CSL, IAS ...

Aetherflux, the space solar startup founded by Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of Robinhood, has raised $50 million ...

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/Metis & EUI Teams, V. Andretta and P. Romano/INAF A newly released video has revealed a gigantic plume of solar wind towering above the sun in a never-before-seen ...