Aetherflux, a startup founded by a physicist with a background in financial services, announced it was developing a novel ...

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

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

Turns out, it's as tough to drop inward into the inner solar system, as it is to head outward. The problem stems from losing ...

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.

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

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

A swirling solar jet 1.2 million miles long was captured in motion by Solar Orbiter—offering the clearest-ever view of solar wind forming at the source, deep in the corona. This structure ...

Aetherflux announced it raised $50 million in a Series-A funding round to develop solar satellites that deliver energy to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ...

When the video was recorded, ESA's Solar Orbiter was the only probe capable of capturing solar wind in such great detail. However, ESA's Proba-3 mission, which launched in December 2024, is also ...