Solar Orbiter has revealed that tiny, hair-like jets in the Sun’s coronal holes are responsible for both fast and slow solar ...

In 2023, the European Space Agency reported on Solar Orbiter's discovery of tiny jets near the sun's south pole that could be ...

The spacecraft's Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) is responsible for studying the surface of the Sun, also known as the photosphere. It does that by snapping images as well as measuring ...

As sunspots emerge on the sun's surface close to its equator, their orientations will match the old magnetic field, while sunspots forming closer to the poles will have a magnetic field matching the ...

The Sun's surface is a highly active region in the Solar System, with fissures opening up regularly that affect us on Earth.

Images captured by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory have revealed that "coronal loops" give off subtle flashes of ...

At 8,000 pixels, they're the highest-resolution full views of the sun's visible surface to date and reveal spectacular detail. “If you want to understand the Sun in its entirety, it is essential ...

Mercury takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the sun.

Graphic visualisation of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) shows a vast 500,000 mile-wide coronal hole in the sun's ...

A chunk of space rock that visited near Earth's orbit last year was widely called a "mini-moon," a nickname that was more ...