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ESA's Solar Orbiter captured a "tube of cooler atmospheric gases snaking its way through the Sun’s magnetic field," according ...

Solar Orbiter began routine science operations in 2021 and has since looped ever closer to the Sun, stealing bits of speed ...

The European Space Agency (ESA)'s Solar Orbiter mission has obtained a stunning high-res image of the sun's upper atmosphere.

NASA scientists have sought to understand planet Jupiter, the gas giant whose mass is more than the rest of the planets in ...

The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

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The presence of another planet in the solar system could explain the odd movements of some of the bodies in the Kuiper Belt.

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ESA has compiled the largest image of our sun to date from 200 individual images taken by the Solar Orbiter. It shows the ...

Solar Orbiter just delivered its most jaw-dropping image yet—an enormous, detailed snapshot of the Sun's blazing outer ...