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

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

For the first time, images of the Sun's south pole have been captured by a space probe. This unique perspective provides ...

At solar minimum, the lowest-activity part of the cycle, the sun’s magnetic field is what scientists call a dipole: it looks like a giant bar magnet, with a strong pole at each end.

The sun's north and south poles do a flip about every decade, but scientists don't know why. NASA and ESA's Solar Orbiter hopes to answer that question.

The Solar Orbiter has captured the first-ever views of the sun's south pole. ESA & NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team, D. Berghmans (ROB), via ESA Standard Licence Though humans have been observing ...

A previous spacecraft, Ulysses, flew over the solar poles in the 1990s. "Ulysses, however, was blind in the sense that it did not carry any optical instruments - telescopes or cameras ...

Solar Orbiter, conversely, has multiple cameras to capture images of the sun. In March, after four flybys of Venus, the spacecraft swooped about 32 million miles over the sun’s south pole at an ...

This collage shows Solar Orbiter's view of the sun's south pole on 16–17 March 2025, from a viewing angle of about 15° below the solar equator. Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/PHI, ...

Solar Orbiter’s latest data reveals the Sun’s magnetic south pole in a state of chaos, with a mix of north and south magnetic fields rather than a single dominant one, like on Earth.

International researchers led by KAUST have developed a new cooling technology that improves the power and longevity of solar ...