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.

A new series of images from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft is giving scientists the clearest view yet of the sun's volatile lower atmosphere-and unlocking critical insights into the forces behind ...

The first-ever images produced by the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope were released Wednesday ... an elaborate cooling system and state-of-the-art optics that compensate for blurring created ...