Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Ângela Santos, has made the first ...

The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter captured the first-ever images of the sun's south pole in March, which were ...

Here we explore why our sun won't live forever and what will happen when it finally runs out of fuel. If you’ve ever wondered when the sun is going to die, there's no need to worry — our star ...

For the first time in history, we re seeing the Sun from an angle no one ever has: from above and below its poles. Thanks to ...

But the sun's entire lifespan will last another 6 billion years. That should be plenty of time for Musk and SpaceX to develop the massive Starship rocket, which has yet to reach orbit.

A team led by astronomers at Leiden University in the Netherlands and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in Virginia (U ...

According to a recent study led by researchers from Johns Hopkins University (JHU), the space telescope detected water ice in the debris disk that orbits HD 181327, a Sun-like star 155 light-years ...

Illustration by Marina Muun. Who determined that the sun was a star, like the stars in the nighttime sky? Mike Curtiss West Richland, Washington. No single astronomer had this realization.