The Solar Orbiter mission has captured the highest-resolution views of the sun’s surface to date, showcasing massive sunspots ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse. The perimeter of Earth’s orbit is roughly 584 million miles ...

Astronomers have taken the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, and it’s a “monster star” surrounded by a cocoon ...

A research team has presented a mechanism that explains how coronal dimmings—darkened, depleted areas on the sun caused by ...

For all of human history, the Sun has served as a great constant in daily life. As this brilliant orb blazes across the sky, it sustaind life, provides harmonious rhythms to our world, and marks ...

The Solar Orbiter spacecraft has sent home the highest resolution views of the sun's surface to date, providing fresh views ...

Researchers simulated the sun’s polar vortices using computer models, which suggest the vortices are likely driven by ...

"The Sun is just one among a hundred billion stars ... Understanding the life stories of the stars has been one of the great tasks of astronomy during the last hundred years, and astronomers ...