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

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

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

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

ESA’s Solar Orbiter discovered cascading magnetic avalanches on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares and particle storms ...

A new time-lapse reveals the Sun’s inner corona glowing a faint yellow, offering a rare look at the hottest layer of our star’s atmosphere. The footage was created using images from the ASPIICS ...

F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic snarls of magnetic fields that birth solar flares. These fiery outbursts occur ...

Using artificial solar eclipses, the ESA probes Proba-3 are researching the corona of our home star. Now there is an ...

Solar prominences occur when the sun’s plasma, flowing along the magnetic field lines that the sun creates, forms a loop into space along the edge of the sun’s disk. When a prominence becomes ...

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

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission recently stunned the world with the first-ever full images of our Sun’s South pole, proving that this was going to be a mission like no other. Using ...

MAITLAND, Fla., Jan. 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- ESA, a leading solar and energy storage developer, proudly reflects on a year of milestones and impact in Virginia's dynamic and competitive community ...