Even though the Red Planet's atmosphere is thin, wind is still one of Mars' most relentless sculptors.

Solar Orbiter captured the most detailed view of a solar flare, observing the build-up of events that lead to the explosion.

Just as avalanches on snowy mountains start with the movement of a small quantity of snow, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter ...

ESA's Solar Orbiter captured views of the planet Mercury passing in front of the Sun. Multiple instruments aboard the ...

ESA’s Solar Orbiter discovered cascading magnetic avalanches on the Sun, triggering powerful solar flares and particle storms ...

F or all of its life-sustaining energy, the sun is pretty chaotic. Roiling plasma covers its surface along with fluidic snarls of magnetic fields that birth solar flares. These fiery outbursts occur ...

A Mars spacecraft has now been AWOL for more than a month. But NASA hasn't given up hope of restoring contact with the MAVEN ...

MAVEN was built to last in orbit until 2030 — that's not looking likely anymore.

Solar Orbiter has captured the clearest evidence yet that a solar flare grows through a cascading “magnetic avalanche.” Small, weak magnetic disturbances rapidly multiplied, triggering stronger and ...

Tech built in Colorado will soon be heading to the moon as Lockheed Martin is working with Cal-Tech and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory to send up an orbiter. The mission hopes to send back data that ...

Since launching in February of 2020, the Solar Orbiter probe has been zeroing in on the Sun with a suite of instruments designed to unravel some of its secrets. Among those is an advanced ultraviolet ...

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