We Earthlings see the sun every day of our lives—but gaining a truly new view of our star is a rare and precious thing. So ...

Never before seen pictures will help scientists learn how the Sun's activity changes from stormy to quiet periods ...

But when they were exposed to a magnetic field mimicking a location about 375 miles south of where they had been caught, many of them tried to swim north.

Using its magnetic sensors, the probe has revealed that the sun's magnetic fields are a mess at the moment. The south pole (pictured) currently has areas of north (red) and south (blue) polarity ...

After the magnetic field flips, a single polarity slowly builds up in the Sun’s poles and takes over. When the Sun reaches its solar minimum in about five to six years, the north and south poles ...

Solar Orbiter’s view of the magnetic fields around the sun’s south pole. Patches of blue and red mark the mixed magnetic fields in this region that characterize solar maximum.

For those in the northern states, the aurora borealis, or northern lights, are likely to appear this week, according to the ...

A magnetic mess Solar Orbiter’s latest data reveals the Sun’s magnetic south pole in a state of chaos, with a mix of north and south magnetic fields rather than a single dominant one, like on ...

A rare geological event occurs every 300,000 years or so: the Earth’s magnetic poles flip. The magnetic poles are the two ...

The Solar Orbiter space mission, a joint initiative of the European Space Agency (ESA) and NASA, has for the first time ...

“When the sun is at its minimum, you have a north pole and a south pole, each with its own magnetic polarity,” said Anik De Groof, Solar Orbiter’s mission manager.