Solar Orbiter pieced together 200 ultraviolet images to show our star’s million-degree atmosphere in all its glory.

Thanks to Inouye, as well as NASA’s Parker Solar Probe – the fastest human-made object in space – and the incredible European ...

Snapped on March 9, the orbiter was 77 million kilometers (48 million miles) from the Sun. It snapped 200 individual images ...

The Institut für Sonnenphysik (KIS) located in Freiburg, Germany, has installed a high-precision measuring instrument for the ...

On 9 March 2025, it captured its most detailed image so far. The spacecraft used its Extreme Ultraviolet Imager to photograph the Sun over four and a half hours. It took 200 frames from 48 million ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

On May 7, 2025, the Sun unleashed a stunning solar filament eruption, sending a dramatic wave of solar energy across space.

Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...

"Thanks to the high resolution of our new images, we detected a faint structure on the northeast side of this supernova ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Solar Orbiter mission has obtained a stunning high-res image of the sun's upper atmosphere.