Our Sun, that steady burning ball of gas that has faithfully illuminated Earth for billions of years, is slowly but ...

A study from an international team led by researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the University of New Hampshire in the United States has revealed the importance of the Earth’s upper ...

The Sun is mostly hydrogen and helium. Its core temperature is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old. It's a G-type main-sequence star. Key takeaways sponsored by The ...

Understanding the Sun’s magnetic behavior is crucial to predicting space weather and its effects on Earth. Recent findings from the Solar Orbiter, published in a paper on Nov. 5 in The Astrophysical ...

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri (near) ...

The sun, the earth’s own star, is mildly manic-depressive, passing from quiet to excitement on a roughly eleven-year cycle. It is quiet now and getting quieter. So on Jan. 1, 1964 scientists of 50 ...

A Dec. 28, 2023, Facebook post (direct link, archive link) claims humanity's basic understanding of the solar system is flawed. "They say the sun is 400 times larger than the moon and that it only ...

These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout ...

New research suggests that Theia, the object whose collision with Earth is theorized to have caused the formation of the moon ...

Large geomagnetic storms disrupt radio signals and GPS. Now, researchers have identified the previous underestimated role of the ionosphere, a region of Earth's upper atmosphere that contains a high ...