New findings suggest that an extraordinarily powerful and dangerous burst of radiation might flare from our sun in the future. By Katrina Miller Our sun is a violent place. Bursts of radiation ...

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At more than one million degrees, the sun's atmosphere—the corona—is incredibly hot; but not everywhere. Time and again, huge ...

Bactrim is the brand-name version of the antibiotic co-trimethoprim. Doctors often advise that you avoid getting too much sun while taking Bactrim, alongside wearing sunscreen and keep covered in ...

New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our star’s visible surface ever seen, revealing sunspots and continuously moving charged gas ...

Stars are born in clusters. Some stay together as binaries, some drift apart and some are violently thrown out of the family. The Pleiades are young clustered blue stars being born from dust and gas.

To most people, the sun is a steady, never-changing source of heat and light. But to scientists, it’s a dynamic star, constantly in flux, sending energy out into space. Experts say the sun is now ...

The sun may too bright and too powerful for us to look at with the naked eye, even from nearly 92 million miles away on Earth, but a solar orbiter recently got an unprecedented up-close glimpse of ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of Sun-like stars billions of years ago. The journey may have carried the ...

In August last year, the Sun began to throw a tantrum. Clusters of dark spots appeared on its face, marking regions where magnetic fields were knotting and twisting its surface. By early September, ...

The intensity of the Sun’s activity ebbs and flows across years, but also across decades—a behavior that scientists haven’t quite figured out yet. At the turn of the 21 st century, astrophysicists ...

Acting as stellar archaeologists, scientists have found fossilized magnetism on long-dead white dwarf stars, which may help ...