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 ...

The ESA has finally captured photos of the Sun's south pole, unlocking the door to how our Sun's magnetic field works.

"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 ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.