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Of all the things to worry about, the explosion of our sun is perhaps one of the least pressing. The Earth has seen five ...

Astronomers traced a mysterious 'scar' of ionized gas around the solar system to two stars that had a close flyby with our ...

Astronomers have studied 3,600 supernovas to discover diversity in exploding white dwarf stars, a vital tool in the ...

Since the spring of 2010, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) has been has been shooting continuous photos of the sun, once every 12 seconds in 10 different wavelengths. The results are gorgeous.

"The sheer amount of radiated energy from these bursts is so large that you can't power them with a core collapse stellar ...

The sun is giving off solar eruptions so massive, it looks like a huge volcano. Amateur astronomer Peter Lawrence snapped this amazing close-up of the flares shooting into space from the sun’s eastern ...

A new explanation for the solar system's radioactive elements suggests Earth-like planets might be found orbiting up to 50 ...

In Exploding Sun, the first ever commercial space shuttle is struck by a solar storm. The disaster hyper-charges the engine and catapults the ship on a direct course for the sun. But the danger ...

In Exploding Sun, the first ever commercial space shuttle is struck by a solar storm. The disaster hyper-charges the engine and catapults the ship on a direct course for the sun. But the danger ...