Our Sun will not explode like other stars. Instead, it will slowly expand into a red giant, consuming inner planets. This ...

Earlier this year, Earth experienced two geomagnetic storms caused by outbursts of radiation from the Sun, which had an impact on satellites in space and communication systems on the ground. As it ...

IRAS 15103-5754, a star observed as it was turning into a planetary nebula, yields new clues as to the death of stars akin to the sun The birth of planetary nebulae, resulting from the death of low ...

The sun has unleashed a powerful X-class solar flare today, peaking at 8:10 a.m. (1310 GMT) and triggering shortwave radio blackouts across South America, Africa and the Southern Atlantic. The solar ...

Explosive sunspot AR3663 and its bigger cousin AR3664 are the current main solar flare players, unleashing flare after flare. We're struggling to keep up! When you purchase through links on our site, ...

Imagining every drop of Earth’s water hurled into the Sun sounds like a last-ditch cosmic fire extinguisher, but the physics ...

High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 years, making these blasts far more common than ...