New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas ...

India's Mars Orbiter Mission, known as MOM, has ended after eight years – even though it was designed for a six-month lifespan, the Indian Space Research Organization announced this week.

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 ...

You can get in touch with Jess by emailing [email protected]. NASA and the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution images of our sun ever captured.

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 ...

Artist’s impression of Solar Orbiter and Parker Solar Probe. Solar Orbiter: ESA/ATG medialab; Parker Solar Probe: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL Recent results from the European Space Agency (ESA)’s ...

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Solar Orbiter spacecraft is performing a long series of flybys of various planets to bring it closer and closer to the sun on each pass. It will eventually come ...

Solar Orbiter captured images of tiny jets of material escaping from the Sun’s outer atmosphere. ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team For nearly five years, a Sun-observing probe has been making ...

Despite its modest overall achievements, India's Mars Orbiter Mission is one of the more notable successes of the modern spaceflight era. Launched in 2013, it was the first Mars mission built by ...

Snapped on March 9, the orbiter was 77 million kilometers (48 million miles) from the Sun. It snapped 200 individual images that were put together in this extraordinary view, 12,544 by 12,544 pixels .

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Last year, the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter drew closer to the Sun than it ...