ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

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

They come from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter (SolO) probe, which was launched earlier this year. Among the UK-assembled craft's novel insights are views of mini-flares dubbed "camp fires".

Last week, three tiny Australian satellites from Curtin University's Binar Space Program burned up in Earth's atmosphere.

Solar Orbiter is ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) first medium class mission with strong partnership from NASA. Part of the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Programme, the science platform has now ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back the first video of the sun from just two-thirds of the distance between the Earth and ...

Europe's audacious Solar Orbiter probe has lifted off on its quest to study the Sun from close quarters. The €1.5bn (£1.3bn) mission is packed with cameras and sensors that should reveal ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

This allows us to use our scientific expertise to help address vital national safety interests and build on UNH’s long ...

The playground is our solar system, and you can even execute missions to the moon or other planets. (Time compression is available to shorten long cruise phases.) Orbiter accurately models the ...

Tuesday marks the tenth anniversary of a huge astronomical milestone: the first and only time we have landed on a comet. The ...

NASA's Coronal Diagnostic Experiment (CODEX) is ready to launch to the International Space Station to reveal new details ...