How big is the Sun compared to the Earth? Imagine you were able to shrink the Sun to the size of a basketball. At that point ...

Since ancient times, the sun has been known as a giver of light and heat, a source of life. Plants are coaxed from the Earth ...

Solar activity includes phenomena such as sunspots, solar flares and solar wind – the stream of charged particles that flows toward Earth. This activity is a product of the Sun's ever-changing ...

A distant white dwarf hosts an Earth-like planet in an orbit that might be similar to Earth’s if it survives the Sun’s red giant phase.

Proba-3's mission will continuously measure the Sun’s energy output, enhancing climate research with precise solar data.

As the sun grows into a red giant, its outer layers will expand, potentially engulfing Earth in a fiery demise, as predicted by the study published in Nature Astronomy. According to astronomers ...

Approximately every 11 years, at the peak of this cycle, the Sun’s magnetic poles flip—similar to the North and South Poles on Earth swapping positions every decade—marking a transition from ...

Solar flares are not directly responsible for the aurora borealis. The lights are caused by a phenomenon known as coronal ...