Launched on Dec. 20, it would travel for the next 23 days on a NASA balloon along the very highest reaches of the atmosphere, ...

It took millions of years of being a species before humans took the first picture of our own Earth's southernmost point. Now, after less than a century in space, we've photographed the Sun's south ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter deep-space probe has made history, returning the first-ever images of the Sun's south pole. It's a world first that sheds a great deal of light on the mysteries of our parent star, ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles. Reading time 3 minutes For more than 60 years, various spacecraft and telescopes have ...

Remote, freezing, and wrapped in mystery, Antarctica was the last continent to be explored and remains one of the most difficult environments on Earth to access. Its landscape of endless white, broken ...

Prior to the ESA releasing the photos, any image you have ever seen of the sun was taken from around its equator. The Solar Orbiter launched February 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in ...

A spacecraft developed by European scientists and companies has captured unprecedented new views of the Sun’s south pole. Built by Airbus in the UK, Solar Orbiter was developed as part of a joint ...

On February 10th, 2020, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Solar Orbiter space probe from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Over five years later, Solar Orbiter has now delivered photos of the Sun’s ...

Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin is currently refining its Endurance lander to ensure it can function as the backbone of a lunar ...

The darkest places on the Moon are finally giving up their secrets, and South Korea is at the center of that revelation. By ...

For the first time ever, a spacecraft has snapped images of the sun’s south pole. These swirling gold-and-black views of the fiery ball of gas are key to understanding the solar magnetic storms that ...