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

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Images of the far-side of the sun taken by the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter of a giant sunspot region makes aurora ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of the ...

NASA has released the final request for proposals for a Mars telecommunications system, confirming requirements that limit the companies that can bid on it.

Orbiter SN3 deploys from the stack of payloads on the Transporter-8 rideshare launch June 12. The spacecraft started spinning a short time later because of a software glitch. Credit: Launcher ...

What is not controversial is that NASA needs a new spacecraft capable of relaying communications from Mars to Earth. NASA’s ...

The joint U.S.-European Solar Orbiter spacecraft had an appointment with Venus this morning (Dec. 27), the first in a series of planetary flybys to hone the probe's orbit on its journey to the sun.

A spacecraft has spied a spiky “hedgehog” on the sun and watched a solar flare in ways never done before. The Solar Orbiter, a collaboration between the European Space Agency and NASA, launched in ...