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 ...

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.

In a world that so often encourages women to play it safe, a young Kuwaiti woman named Yasmeen Almane dared to do the un ...

The summer solstice is a moment in space and time during the annual orbit when our tilted planet's Northern Hemisphere points ...

Lightning happens all the time, but certain parts of the world get far less of it than others, including near the North Pole. Lightning requires atmospheric instability, something that’s set up ...

The ESA's press release about their findings goes so far as to call the Sun’s magnetic field "a mess." The Sun's magnetic north and south poles switch places every 11 years, and it's a somewhat ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft returns first-ever data of the Sun collected from a 17-degree tilted ...

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 ...

Until now. In March, a spacecraft captured the first-ever clear images of the sun's south pole, which the European Space Agency released Wednesday, June 11. “We reveal humankind’s first-ever ...