Scientists have long speculated about the possibility of our Sun having a twin star, a theory that has gained traction with recent data. The evidence and implications of a potential solar sibling shed ...

The Sun is essential to our astrological makeup and is often the starting point for our journey into studying the stars. It ...

Observations made using a new method have revealed that sun-like stars produce cataclysmic superflares once every hundred years. Could our sun create one soon? When you purchase through links on our ...

In a significant breakthrough, astronomers have identified the presence of so-called “forbidden” elements in the Sun’s core.

The Sun seems like a constant, reassuring presence day to day, but it's actually fairly tempestuous and changeable. One particular change it undergoes is what we call the solar cycle. Every 11 years ...

New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. By Katrina Miller Our sun is a violent place. Bursts of radiation snap ...

Our Sun will become a white dwarf in about 7 billion years. At that point, it will no longer produce energy through nuclear fusion, having exhausted its fuel (hydrogen and helium). Just like the ...

"Our work goes beyond enhancing old images — it's about creating a universal language to study the sun's evolution across time." Our sun cycles through its pattern of energetic activity every 11 years ...

Most places on Earth have seasons because our planet is on a tilt as it orbits the sun. But our star also has its own version of seasons that affect life on Earth—and new astronomical research is ...

Earth is far from the only celestial body in the Solar System.

A high-resolution snapshot of the Sun from Solar Orbiter. Image: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI Team, E. Kraaikamp (ROB) Five years into its mission, NASA and ESA’s Solar Orbiter just snapped what might ...