The video was taken by Metis on October 12, 2022. Metis is the only instrument capable of seeing such subtle features of the ...

An eerie new video from ESA's Solar Orbiter shows a towering 'cyclone' of plasma exhibiting behaviors never seen before on ...

Solar Orbiter captures a rare 1.2 million-mile solar jet, revealing how solar wind forms. This breakthrough may reshape our understanding of space weather and Earth's defenses.

Aside from sunlight, the sun sends out a gusty stream of particles called the solar wind. The ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A twisting, whirling streamer of plasma escaping the sun in the aftermath of a coronal mass ...

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/Metis & EUI Teams, V. Andretta and P. Romano/INAF A newly released video has revealed a gigantic plume of solar wind towering above the sun in a never-before-seen ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter captured a massive plasma spiral extending millions of kilometres, revealing swirling solar wind patterns ...

It is basically a coronagraph that blocks the Sun to observe its corona (outermost atmospheric solar layer) which is full of ...

The Milky Way-mapper Gaia telescope is being switched off today. The European Space Agency (ESA) said on March 27 that Gaia's ...