Huge clouds of material erupting from the sun may share at least one feature with the fluffy white clouds scudding through Earth's skies — ripples along their edges. Researchers studying new images of ...

The Sun is wearing some of its largest dark circles in years. Together, these dark circles cover an area almost 14 times the size of Earth. They could burst at any point of time. Known as sunspots, ...

In a groundbreaking astronomical first, scientists have captured an explosive event resembling the Sun's coronal mass ejections (CMEs) occurring on a distant star about 130 light-years away. The ...

Earth may owe some of its properties to a nearby star that blew up just as the solar system was forming. This pattern, which saw a supernova bubble envelop the sun and shower it with cosmic rays, may ...