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

"Today we reveal humankind's first-ever views of the Sun's pole," said Carole Mundell, the ESA's director of science, in a statement. "These new unique views from our Solar Orbiter mission are the ...

The Solar Orbiter, a collaborative mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, captured detailed images of the sun’s southern region in March, something no other probe has done at close range.

The Sun is the closest star to us and the most studied by humanity. There is a lot we still do not know about it. Among the unknowns, until today, were the Sun's polar regions. We simply had not seen ...

As ESA inclined the orbit of the Solar Orbiter relative to the orbital plane, the probe could observe the south pole of the ...

Thanks to its newly tilted orbit around the Sun, the European Space Agency-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft is the first to image ...

From a young age, Roald Amundsen dreamed of exploring the world and habitually slept with his windows open — even during ...

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

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

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

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