NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of our sun ever captured. ESA has shared four images of the sun's surface, revealing the ...

The European Solar Orbiter spacecraft will make its closest approach to the sun on Saturday morning, getting to one third of the sun-Earth distance. When you purchase through links on our site, we may ...

Consumed by the hubris of youth, Icarus thought himself invincible as he calmly fastened a pair of homemade wings and prepared to fly. The wax-and-feathers ensemble had been made by his father, ...

A spacecraft has spied a spiky “hedgehog” on the sun and watched a solar flare in ways never done before. The Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, launched in ...