Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define ...

Recent scientific analysis of dead stars’ remnants has offered a chilling glimpse into the Sun’s future demise, shedding ...

In a few billion years, our Sun will become so violently hot that it could wipe out all life in the Milky Way. Yet, paradoxically, the same star that could destroy life may also help make distant ...

This gap in knowledge has long prevented scientists from fully understanding the dynamics of solar activity, which can ...

Scientists at the University of Hawaiʻi have discovered why it rains on the Sun. Solar rain, made of cooling plasma, forms rapidly during solar flares, a mystery now solved by modeling time-varying ...

The discovery could explain how the corona's temperature greatly exceeds that of the Sun's surface, and identify a key driver of the solar wind.