ESA’s Solar Orbiter should solve the longstanding puzzle about why the Sun’s outer corona is so much hotter than its surface.

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

Astro Brief is a collaboration between KSMU, the Missouri Space Grant, and MSU's Department of Physics, Astronomy and ...

We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...

The Sun’s outer atmosphere—the corona—only reveals itself during total solar eclipses, which happen about every 18 months on ...

A pair of European satellites have created the first artificial solar eclipses through precise and fancy formation flying.

The White House bid to terminate NASA’s fantastical flights of exploration “across the solar system” threatens to explode ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) has achieved a rather unusual feat, successfully creating and maintaining artificial solar ...

Two satellites just carefully lined up to form a perfect "artificial total solar eclipse" in orbit. Earlier this year, the ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission has achieved a spacefaring marvel: two satellites flying in perfect formation to mimic total solar ...

Scientists may have discovered a dwarf planet far beyond Neptune — an unearthing that may disprove a longstanding theory ...