By using sound waves propagating through the Sun, researchers think our star's radius may be fractionally shorter than the traditional model.

Solar Downsize

Just a teensy bit.

Scientists Say the Sun Is Smaller Than We Thought

NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew through a plasma flare, specifically called a coronal mass ejection, bursting from the Sun and survived.

Toasty

Brighter than a thousand Suns.

NASA's Solar Probe Survived Flying Right Through Massive Sun Explosion

Current observations suggest we could see a solar maximum as early as 2024, not 2025, defying our predictions.

Big Solar

Could the Sun be peaking early?

There's Something Weird Going on With the Sun

Satan's Butthole is Back

Are those... tendrils?

This Extreme Closeup of the Sun Is Just... Extremely Weird

A second giant "hole," large enough to easily fit 20 Earths in one go, has torn the Sun's surface apart, heralding our star's most ferocious period during its 11-year cycle.

Don't Blink

Natural phenomenon, or portal to hell?

Low Key Hole Opens Up in Sun

According to a new study, the water in our Solar System is likely older than our Sun — and the secret, they say, was discovered in another star.

Baby Star Doo-Doo

It's the "missing the link" we've been looking for.

Water Existed Long Before the Solar System, Astronomers Find

A team of researchers has made an unusual discovery: a series of "heartbeat"-like radio bursts emanating from a solar flare above the Sun's surface.

Solar Heartbeat

"The discovery is unexpected."

Scientists Detect "Heartbeat-Like" Signal From the Sun

Exoplanet SPECULOOS-2c, perhaps, can maybe give us an exact solar radiation level to be wary of. (Or a ballpark figure, at least.)

Back to the Future

"It's like traveling five billion years into the Earth's future."

Scientists Think This Exoplanet Shows What Earth Will Become in the Future

Sun Fun

The Sun looks like... Honey? Hair? Crystals?

Ludicrously Close Up Shots of the Sun Look Nothing Like You'd Expect

A massive chunk of comet was spotted crashing into our fiery Sun. And perhaps unsurprisingly, it doesn't look like the rocky body didn't make it out intact.

Sun Flop

Talk about a snowball's chance in hell!

Hey Kids, Wanna See a Giant Comet Smash Into the Sun?

A NASA-funded project aims to use the Sun as a gigantic lens to peer into the far reaches of the universe to look for extraterrestrial biosignatures.

Sun Gazer

An epic task.

Researchers Want to Use the Sun As a Giant Telescope to Look for Aliens

ESA scientists had to raise the Swarm constellation satellites, which measure Earth's magnetic field, because they were sinking in chaotic space weather.

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