Mars gets all the attention, but Venus might actually be a better candidate for human colonization. Instead of living on the ...

Honorable Mentions: American Family Field (Milwaukee Brewers, MLB); Busch Stadium (St. Louis Cardinals, MLB), Huntington Bank ...

Spacecraft and specialized telescopes have been studying the sun closely for decades, probing the secrets of its spots, ...

Spot overlapping meteor showers this month, along with the Moon sharing the sky with some of the brightest planets.

The Venus of Kołobrzeg, discovered by a Polish farmer on the Baltic coast in 2022, has been authenticated as a Neolithic ...

I was looking forward to writing a tribute to clear summer skies and great summer stargazing in the Pacific Northwest.

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

Images of the north pole are still being transmitted. Professor Carole Mundell, ESA’s Director of Science said, “Today we present humanity’s first-ever images of the Sun’s pole.

A solar mission shared between the European Space Agency and NASA has captured the first-ever images of the Sun 's south pole. Under the ESA's guidance, Solar Orbiter—which launched in February ...

On Wednesday, the European Space Agency (ESA) released images captured by three instruments on board the Solar Orbiter. Taken from a distance of around 40 million miles (roughly 65 million kilometres) ...

But thanks to a flyby around Venus in February, the Solar Orbiter has now begun to orbit the Sun outside of this “ecliptic plane,” allowing the spacecraft to see the Sun from a new, high-latitude ...

As ESA inclined the orbit of the Solar Orbiter relative to the orbital plane, the probe could observe the south pole of the sun for the first time ever.