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

The entire Space Orbiter mission reportedly cost a mammoth $1.5 billion, and was in development for more than a decade before ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter, which launched in 2020 from Cape Canaveral, captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole.

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 ...

In a daring maneuver, the joint European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA mission swooped below the solar system’s planetary plane to capture the sun’s elusive south pole. The spacecraft dipped 15 degrees ...

The first-ever images of the sun’s south pole reveal a messy jumble of magnetic activity in a never-before-seen region of our ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back thousands of images from Mars, but one recurring subject stands out: a tiny, ...