Scientists have discovered incredibly tiny plasma whirlpools swirling across the Sun’s surface, some just 20 kilometers wide.

Diagrams of the solar system tend to give the planets top billing, lining them up in colorful rows while the star at the ...

An icy visitor from another star system has swept through the inner solar system faster than any object ever tracked on a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest ...

ESA’s Proba-3 mission flies two spacecraft in formation to create artificial solar eclipses lasting up to five hours, giving ...

Researchers from the U.S. National Science Foundation National Solar Observatory (NSF NSO), the Max Planck Institute for ...

A solar eclipse is a rare, visually striking phenomenon. The Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, temporarily hiding our star – a geometrical alignment spanning millions of miles. A partial solar ...

Credit: ESA & NASA/Solar Orbiter/EUI team; Data processing: E. Kraaikamp (ROB) As tempting as it is to cite one, no single number can describe the temperature of the whole Sun. Its layers are at ...

The highly anticipated solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, might offer some extra fireworks. It’s all thanks to a series of massive explosions that one solar physicist says could be visible during the ...

How will life on Earth end? The answer, of course, is unknown, but two new studies suggest a collision with Mercury or Mars could doom life long before the Sun swells into a red giant and bakes the ...

Approximately 4.5 billion years ago, a cold cloud of gas and dust buried deep in one of the Milky Way galaxy’s spiral arms started to collapse. From there, gravity worked its magic. The cloud began to ...