The Solar Orbiter is the first spacecraft to study the Sun's poles - and finds the magnetic field in a state of flip ...

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists seek a deeper understanding of Earth's host star, including its magnetic field, its ...

The interior of the sun is threaded with huge ropes and tubes of magnetic fields, loaded with very hot plasma—gas so hot its ...

The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, but our newfound views of its south pole will help predict future solar activity.

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...

Moving from the outer layer inward, the first layer is the corona — the outermost part of the sun’s atmosphere that is actually hotter than the sun’s surface. This is followed by the chromosphere — a ...

In 2025, space exploration enters a new era with missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, led by NASA, ISRO, ESA, JAXA, and ...

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 European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...