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

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

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 ...

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

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

Portal Space Systems has raised $17.5 million to accelerate the development of a space vehicle with a solar thermal propulsion system.

It is basically a coronagraph that blocks the Sun to observe its corona (outermost atmospheric solar layer) which is full of ...

After more than a decade of charting the stars with extraordinary precision, the Gaia spacecraft has completed its mission.

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 ...

Now, the ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter has captured a particularly interesting Mercury transit on video, giving astronomers important data. While the video of Mercury’s transit across the Sun ...

In contrast, during a total solar eclipse — which is preceded by a partial eclipse — the moon completely covers the sun, ...