Our Sun, the celestial body that has nurtured life on Earth for billions of years, is not eternal. This massive ball of gas is slowly evolving, consuming its hydrogen fuel and gradually increasing in ...

An artist’s impression of the far-future sun, swollen to become a red giant star, as seen from a molten Earth landscape. As summer settles in and temperatures climb in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Radiation from the sun may not just affect our planet's surface, but also influences material deep within the Earth. Samples of ancient magma from within the Earth have revealed certain chemical ...

It appears that until 3 billion years ago, Mars was partly covered by water, at which time its atmosphere was blown away by the solar wind. But a recent study published in the Proceedings of the ...

Searching for life on other planets requires more than just measuring their distances from their stars. A future NASA ...

The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It's a giant ball of burning gas that holds our cosmic neighborhood together and without it, there would be no life on Earth. We are also ...