How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...
Scientists have pulled back the curtain on one of the most extreme solar regions seen in decades, tracking it almost nonstop ...
The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.
The recent flurry of solar storms suggests the sun is in a period of maximal activity as part of its 11-year cycle. The active period is likely to continue over the next year, so more auroras could be ...
Currently, the Moon is drifting away from Earth at a rate of about 1.6 inches per year making it slowly appear smaller in the ...
The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter has captured humanity's first-ever images of the sun's poles. If this doesn't seem like a big deal, consider that every image you have ever seen of the sun ...
People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost ...
Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...
Scientists tracked active solar region NOAA 13664 for 94 days, showing how persistent magnetic complexity drives flares and ...