Solar Orbiter is also equipped with four in-situ ... The craft was launched on 9 February 2020 aboard United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V 411 rocket from SLC-41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force ...

Launch of Solar Orbiter is scheduled for 5 February 2020 at 23:15 EST (04:15 UTC on 6 February) via a NASA Launch Services program procured Atlas V 411 rocket from United Launch Alliance (ULA).

A solar probe designed to study the sun's most mysterious and unknown regions launches on a 10-year journey. Jackson Ryan Former Science Editor Jackson Ryan was CNET's science editor, and a ...

The comet, named C/2024 G3 (ATLAS), made its closest ... its trajectory through the solar system and found that it has a highly elliptical, or elongated, orbit around our home star.

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.

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.

It’s called Tsunchinshan-ATLAS, and it traveled here from beyond the solar system ... say it won’t return to this point in ...

Now, the ESA and NASA’s Solar Orbiter has captured a particularly interesting Mercury transit on video, giving astronomers important data. While the video of Mercury’s transit across the Sun ...