A solar mission shared between the European Space Agency and NASA has captured the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole.

The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

European Space Agency isn’t ruling out the cancellation or freezing of some space exploration programmes if budget cuts to ...

Dark matter affects how stars move within galaxies, how galaxies build up over time, and how everything in the universe is held together—but no existing tool has directly detected it. While dark ...

Gravitational wave observatory LISA, Venus orbiter EnVision, and the largest X-ray observatory ever planned, NewAthena, will ...

The Solar Orbiter has been observing the sun since 2021, but it recently went on a side trip to Venus which significantly tilted its orbit and gave it a good view of the sun's polar region. That is ...

The Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first look at the south pole of the sun, revealing messy magnetic fields and ...

Visuals from the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter reveal chaotic solar magnetism in the solar polar region. Even better images are expected in the years ahead.

Astronomers have pulled off an unprecedented feat: detecting ultra-faint light from the Big Bang using ground-based ...

This might sound like an obvious thing for a professional stargazer to say. But astrophysicist Federica Bianco was reacting ...

Several ongoing and future missions led or co-led by NASA exploring the cosmos could face serious changes if Congress ...

An international team of astronomers led by the University of Galway has discovered the likely site of a new planet in ...