Everything in the sky felt upside down and opposite, compared with what I was used to. A person who lives in the Southern Hemisphere might feel the same about visiting the Arctic or the North Pole.

"We didn't know what exactly to expect from these first observations – the sun's poles are literally terra incognita,” Sami ...

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

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

For the first time, images of the Sun's south pole have been captured by a space probe. This unique perspective provides scientists with valuable data about our star. The European Space ...

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

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint mission between the European Space Agency and NASA, is the first to venture into a ...

After the loss of competing Russian Luna-25 lander, India's Chandrayaan-3 is set to hunt for water ice in the moon's unexplored south pole region.

Weird magnetic fields at the sun's south pole. The Sun's polar regions are pretty busy and chaotic places, it turns out. The ESA's press release about their findings goes so far as to call the Sun ...

A topographic model of the Moon using a color-scale from purple (low) to red (high) based on data collected by NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter and Kaguya by the Japanese Space Agency.

Astronomers are excited to be poring over the first ever detailed geological map of the moon’s south polar region, where India’s Chandrayaan-3 lunar module, Vikram, touched down on August 23 ...

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 ...