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.

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists haven't heard from the MAVEN orbiter since December 6. It had been studying the Martian atmosphere for over a ...

An international team of researchers tracked the active solar region using the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, a joint NASA and European Space Agency mission that orbits the Sun on an elliptical path to ...

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 ...