Proba-3 took an image of the Sun's inner corona every five minutes during an active period in September last year.

Plenty of spacecraft and telescopes have throughout the years been able to observe the sun up close – with plenty more missions on the way. In late-December 2024, NASA's Parker Solar Probe got closer ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission enables long-duration artificial solar eclipses in space, allowing continuous observation of the Sun’s ...

The Helix Nebula is one of the most well-known astronomical motifs, yet the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed ...

Launched in February 2020 to take the first-ever close-up images of the sun, the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent back humanity’s first clear images of the sun’s south pole.

Strange grooves, swirling valleys, and hidden ice far from Mars’s poles reveal a surprisingly recent ice age, as new ESA images expose how the Red Planet’s climate once dramatically shifted.

The Sun’s inner corona appears greenish in this image taken on 23 May 2025 by the ASPIICS coronagraph aboard Proba-3, ESA’s formation-flying mission capable of creating artificial total solar eclipses ...