The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter has gotten as close as anything we’ve sent to study our star on purpose, and the pictures it took last year were from less than 46 million miles away.

ESA’s Solar Orbiter, a collaboration with NASA, has delivered its most detailed images yet of the Sun’s surface, offering a mesmerizing view of the star’s dynamic and turbulent nature.

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. The European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter spacecraft is on a journey.

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views of our well-studied star. On Wednesday (Nov. 20), the European Space ...

Recent photos taken by India’s Space Research Organization moon orbiter, known as Chandrayaan 2, clearly show the Apollo 11 and Apollo 12 landing sites more than 50 years later. The photos were ...

The European Space Agency has released an audio-visual representation of solar activity over the last three years, using data from the Solar Orbiter probe.

The snapshots were collected during its closest ever flyby of our solar system’s smallest planet. You can check out the awe-inspiring images below ... It holds one orbiter for Europe and ...