The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were released this week.

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

NASA's new "CODEX" telescope has snapped its first photos of the sun's outer atmosphere, revealing previously imperceptible ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

The Sun appears to smile in hilarious cosmic pictures. A science spaceship captured the quirky grin earlier this month, and ...

Solar Orbiter, conversely, has multiple cameras to capture images of the sun. In March, after four flybys of Venus, the spacecraft swooped about 32 million miles over the sun’s south pole at an ...