The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

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 ...

Now the new South Pole Telescope data, when combined with data from Atacama Cosmology Telescope, set a new standard—a moment many in the field have been waiting for, the scientists said. Space-based ...

Solar Orbiter captures first-ever images of the Sun’s poles, offering insights into solar magnetism, atmospheric motion, and the solar wind.

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

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft took the image near the Sun on March 23, 2025, and it was announced on June 11, 2025.

Learn how the European Space Agency's spacecraft captured a completely new view of the Sun, thanks to its novel tilted orbit.

The sun's south pole with a radiance map on the left showing clumps of carbon ions and a Doppler map on the right showing energized particle (Image credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/SPICE Team, M ...

On June 11, the European Space Agency (ESA) published the first-ever images of the South Pole of the Sun taken by the Solar Orbiter spacecraft.

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 ...