ESA's Proba-3 mission, made up of twin spacecraft capable of aligning to create artificial eclipses, has captured "rare" ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission enables long-duration artificial solar eclipses in space, allowing continuous observation of the Sun’s ...

"This is one of the most exciting results from Solar Orbiter so far." ...

Launched in February 2020, the European Space Agency's (ESA) Solar Orbiter probe has been looping around the Sun with a special purpose in mind: Studying the poles of our star. The planets orbit the ...

Proba-3 took an image of the Sun's inner corona every five minutes during an active period in September last year.

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

Our Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, is millions of degrees hotter than it should be, and no one knows why.

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Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

During a close approach to the Sun, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter watched that tipping point unfold in unusually ...

China's planned Xihe-2 solar probe — set to launch between 2028 and 2029 and become the world's first spacecraft stationed at the Sun-Earth L5 point — will enable detection of solar active regions 4-5 ...

Images captured by NASA's Parker Solar Probe as the spacecraft made its record-breaking closest approach to the sun in December 2024 have now revealed new details about how solar magnetic fields ...