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 ...

Here's a roundup of the best pictures across Somerset this week. What's left of Glastonbury: On Monday, thousands of music fans headed home as Glastonbury Festival came to an end for another year. A ...

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 ...

For decades, scientists have struggled to see the outermost layer of the Sun, called the corona, with enough detail to unlock ...

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 ...