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

The craft helped solar boffins to discover that Sol’s north and south magnetic poles are both on the southern side of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the first time, ESA’s Solar Orbiter has captured direct images of the Sun’s north and south poles, offering crucial ...

The images come courtesy of a spacecraft called Solar Orbiter. Led by the European Space Agency (ESA) with contributions from ...

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

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

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

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

A space probe has delivered world-first images of the Sun's south pole—and this is only the start towards deeper solar science.

On Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) released images captured by three instruments on board the Solar Orbiter. Taken ...