The sun is an incomprehensibly gigantic, constantly roiling nuclear furnace—but some days are even busier than others. Based ...

The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest and most massive object in the solar system, and it provides the light and heat that life on Earth depends on.

Our sun is a roiling mass of energy, with solar flares exploding on its surface, sending gas, plasma, and light that blasts ...

The eROSITA spacecraft has built the most precise map of soft X-rays over Earth, observing a fascinating phenomenon driven by ...

Thanks to the sheer mass of Jupiter and fellow gas giant Saturn, the Solar System barycenter is rarely in the center of the ...

Easy: Venus is the weirdest planet in the solar system. The most distant major planet from the sun and the last stop before ...

On its closest-ever flyby to the sun, NASA's Parker Solar Probe captured newly released images of solar winds purging out from the sun's outermost atmosphere, the Corona. Scientists are learning more ...

Measurements of this interstellar comet’s molecular makeup show an excess of heavy water molecules that is dramatically ...

Solar prominences, huge arcs of plasma hovering above the Sun, are getting fresh attention from scientists studying space ...

At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...