The Sun sends out a constant flow of charged particles called the solar wind, which ultimately travels past all the planets ...

We didn’t know what exactly to expect from these first observations — the Sun’s poles are literally terra incognita,” said ...

The spacecraft's tilted orbit will allow scientists to investigate the mechanisms behind space weather that impact crucial ...

A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

(Reuters) -The robotic Solar Orbiter spacecraft has obtained the first images ever taken of our sun's two poles as scientists ...

For the unversed, "Planet Nine" is a hypothetical planet which is reportedly larger than Earth that is thought to orbit ...

Space artists can sometimes stretch scientific data for a bigger visual bang. At New York's natural history museum, they ...

The magnetic field drives the formation of sunspots, cooler regions on the solar surface that appear as dark blotches. At the ...

Out where the Sun shrinks to a bright pin, Voyager 1 is getting a cosmic suntan. Nearly 24 billion kilometers from Florida’s ...