The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

Unveiled at the 2025 Paris Air Show in late June, the fully electric MONA LUNA rover represents a major leap for Europe's ...

The Solar Orbiter has delivered the "highest resolution image ever of the Sun’s south pole" according to the European Space ...

What we saw in the DESI experiments, and now strengthened by our South Pole Telescope observations, is that dark energy is ...

Polar adventurer Alan Chambers has teamed up with climate scientists to see if microplastics and nanoplastics have reached ...

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

The crew of the Que Sera Sera, a Navy transport plane, at the South Pole on Oct. 31, 1956. The plane's pilot, Lt. Cmdr. Conrad “Gus” Shinn, is third from left.

Solar Orbiter Captures First Clear Views of Sun’s South Pole—and It’s a Hot Mess A recent Venus flyby pushed the spacecraft out of Earth's orbital plane, allowing it to gaze at the solar poles.

The instrument captured the first Doppler measurement of the Sun's south pole, allowing researchers to map the movement of solar material between layers of the star's atmosphere.

Well, the pole's magnetic field, simply put, is a mess at the moment. See, the sun's magnetic field flips roughly every 11 years, and it's about to flip this year if it hasn't yet.