The European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA have released the first pictures and preliminary findings captured by the Solar Orbiter, including intriguing glimpses of “campfires” near the solar ...

Solar Orbiter is ESA’s (European Space Agency’s) first medium class mission with strong partnership from NASA. Part of the Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Programme, the science platform has now ...

The playground is our solar system, and you can even execute missions to the moon or other planets. (Time compression is available to shorten long cruise phases.) Orbiter accurately models the ...

Interstellar material has been discovered in our solar system, but researchers continue to hunt for where it came from and ...

The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything we’ve sent to study our star on purpose, and the pictures it took last year were from less than 46 million miles away.

With Sunday's launch, the pace of discovery is set to double. Solar Orbiter and Parker will work in tandem in the wild environment surrounding the sun, trying to understand exactly what makes it ...

Because that's how long it takes to orbit the sun when you're that far away. Tim Peake introduces Dallas Campbell. Dallas shows an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar system. Before the ...

Now, the ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter has captured a particularly interesting Mercury transit on video, giving astronomers important data. While the video of Mercury’s transit across the Sun ...

The European Space Agency (ESA) is ready to guide the ESA/NASA Solar Orbiter spacecraft through its closest encounter with Venus so far. Today's flyby will be the first to significantly "tilt" the ...

Now, a new analysis by Chitta and his team, using up-close data from the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft, provides compelling evidence that these picoflares are also supplying ...