ESA – Space boarding pass

Please have your boarding pass ready. Destination: the International Space Station. ESA project astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski received…

334th ESA Council: Media information session

Watch the replay of the media information session where ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher and ESA…

PHI sees mixed-up magnetism at the Sun’s south pole

Since 2025, Solar Orbiter is the first Sun-watching spacecraft to ever get a clear look at the…

Why Solar Orbiter is angling towards the Sun’s poles

All images you have ever seen of the Sun were taken from near the Sun’s equator,…

SPICE sees movement at the Sun’s south pole

The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft got…

Solar Orbiter’s view of the Sun’s south pole

From Earth, we always look towards the Sun’s equator. This year, the ESA-led Solar Orbiter mission…

Solar Orbiter’s world-first views of the Sun’s south pole

This collage shows Solar Orbiter’s view of the Sun’s south pole on 16–17 March 2025, from…

PHI’s pole-to-pole view of the Sun’s magnetic field

This video shows a magnetic map of the Sun’s surface, recorded by the ESA-led Solar Orbiter…

SPICE sees the Sun’s south pole

The Spectral Imaging of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) instrument on the ESA-led Solar Orbiter spacecraft got…

Solar Orbiter gets world-first views of the Sun’s south pole

What if we could look at the Sun from a whole new angle, one we’ve never…