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 ...

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

Weird magnetic fields at the sun's south pole The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, it turns out. The ESA's press release about their findings goes so far as to call the Sun ...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

Ever wondered why planes often fly over the North Pole but almost never cross the South Pole? It all comes down to logistics, safety, and practicality. The North Pole is surrounded by land and has ...

In the coming years, Solar Orbiter’s path is expected to tilt even further, bringing even more of the sun's south pole into direct view. As such, the best views may be yet to come, according to ESA.

The Earth’s iron core and magnetic field create the magnetic North Pole. Discovered in the 1830s, the magnetic North Pole is near Ellesmere Island, Canada, about 500 miles from the geographic ...

According to Solar Orbiter, both north and south polarity magnetic fields sit at the Sun's south pole, turning the overall field into a "mess." ...

The Soviet Union landed the first planes at the North Pole on April 23, 1948, while the first naval vessel, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Nautilus, reached the Pole on Aug. 3, 1958.

They show the sun's south pole from a distance of roughly 40 million miles (65 million km), obtained at a period of maximum solar activity. Images of the north pole are still being transmitted by ...