In the summer, the sun is always above the horizon at the North Pole, meaning it gets 24 hours of daylight. In the winter, the sun is always below the horizon, plunging the region into complete ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

We know that our Sun goes through a relatively quiet period, where the Sun's south and north pole are clearly defined. However, there's also a time where it's less stable, and the Sun is much more ...

A massive chunk of the Sun's surface broke off creating a tornado-like whirl around its North Pole. The new development has baffled scientists after NASA's James Webb telescope caught the instance.

NASA launches probe on historic mission to study the sun 02:38. NASA instruments captured the moment part of the sun appeared to break off from the giant star and get swept up in a polar vortex.

Knowing where the Sun’s north and south poles are will help us follow the magnetic fields as they go through a polar reversal, which changes how the energy flows on the surface of our star.