But for Earth and the other planets that revolve around it, the sun is a powerful center of attention. It holds the solar system together; provides life-giving light, heat, and energy to Earth ...

The sun's corona—the outermost layer of its atmosphere, visible only during a total solar eclipse—has long intrigued ...

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 ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system. Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT in fact the center of the ...

This state-of-the-art imaging technology, developed by the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam (AIP), provides a ...

This year has given stargazers plenty of opportunities to catch the colorful auroras of the northern lights flicker across the night sky, and that's expected to continue as the sun is now in its ...

which could mean it advanced further in its orbit around the sun. Some of the strongest evidence that points to the existence of a planet within the outskirts of the solar system is the activity ...

A powerful new optics system has captured the clearest view yet of the Sun’s corona, revealing stunning plasma structures.

A solar flare is a burst of radiation on the sun, according to NASA. They are the most powerful explosions in the solar system, with the biggest ones having as much energy as a billion hydrogen bombs.

The Solar System is the name given to the part of space that surrounds the Sun. Even though it is bigger than anything we can imagine, the Solar System is actually a very tiny part of the universe.

The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system. According to the nebular hypothesis, our star system formed from the ...