The sun rises and sets every day. We plan our lives around it. It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar system," says Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist ...

The sun is the biggest object in the solar system; at about 865,000 miles (1.4 million kilometers) across, it's more than 100 times wider than Earth. Despite being enormous, our star is often called a ...

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New calculations suggest the sun is a few fractions of a percent smaller than previously estimated, and that could change how we study it. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Astronomers have finally unraveled the enigma of why the Sun’s outer atmosphere, known as the corona, is significantly hotter than its surface. While the Sun’s surface temperature is about 5,500 ...

Guwahati: A study by the department of physics at Tezpur University (TU) reported new findings on how gravity works inside the Sun where the key mechanism of energy production is thermonuclear ...

Although solar eclipses are fairly common, total solar eclipses in any given region are rare. In Erie and Crawford counties, the last total eclipse occurred in 1806, and after this month, the next one ...

As one of the five panels that will provide input to the steering committee of the Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics (Heliophysics) 2024-2033; the Panel on the Physics of the Sun and ...