For the first time, scientists have imaged the elusive south pole of the sun. The images captured by the Solar Orbiter ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft travelled 15 degrees below the sun's solar equator to take the images in mid-March - with the ...

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

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 ...

(Reuters) -The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists ...

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

Conrad Shinn, a Navy pilot who became the first person to land a plane at the South Pole ... around the world in 1933. Commander Shinn studied aeronautical engineering at North Carolina State ...

On a brutally cold Halloween evening in 1956, a plane landed at the ice-covered bottom of the Earth, touching down at the ...

In a fascinating exposé, a visual campaign reveals that the familiar world map we all grew up with is more illusion than fact ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) released the first images captured by a spacecraft to observe the Sun’s poles using optical instruments.

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