A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ejection (CME) has been captured ...

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

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 ...

NEW YORK (AP) — A new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system may orbit two failed stars, scientists reported Wednesday ...

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

While studying data from ESA's Solar Orbiter space mission, a research team has discovered a new type of solar wind that ...

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 ...

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.

A mission years in the planning and building took its next great leap Sunday evening as the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter blasts off on a 7-year mission to study the Sun. The probe ...

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 ...

A conception of the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter transiting the sun. Credit: ESA / Acknowledgement: Work performed by ATG medialab under contract for ESA Scientists are still unraveling ...