the sun

Hole-y Moley

Whoever smelled it, dealt it.

Earth About to Be Blasted By a Storm Ejected From the Sun's "Southern Hole"

The sun was captured letting off a ball of gas — which, in other words, makes a solar flare seem a lot like a solar fart.

Tooted

Hey, knock that off!

The Sun Just Let Off a Really Nasty Fart

A group of MIT researchers are proposing the manufacturing and use of "space bubbles" to mitigate climate change — and it's so crazy that it might work.

Bubble Bubble

What, like you have a better idea? 

MIT Scientists Want to Put a Barrier Between Earth and Sun to Fight Climate Change

A filament of plasma escaped the Sun over the weekend and left behind a "canyon of fire," a deep ridge over 12,000 miles deep and ten times as long.

Grander Canyon

It's absolutely massive.

A Huge "Canyon of Fire" Just Opened Up on the Sun

An extraordinary image from the ESA shows the Sun from much closer than Earth — and spoiler alert, it's pretty incredible.

Sun God

The more you zoom in, the more incredible it becomes.

Scientists Release Stunning Picture Taken Really Close to the Sun

Eye of the Sun

It was "like flying into the eye of a storm."

NASA's Probe Took a Video as It "Touched the Sun" and Wow

Scientists may have answered a longstanding question about exactly how Earth's unique water came to be.

Get Wet

"This discovery of water was very unexpected!"

Scientists Say the Sun May Have Kinda Sprayed the Earth With Water

scientists this week tossed eight stars against a black hole one million times the mass of the Sun in a simulated battle to see which intergalactic contender would win.

Star War

It's intergalactic WWE.

Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out How to Kill Stars with Black Holes

A team of astronomers have taken what they claim to be the first-ever image of a multi-planet system around a Sun-like star.

Young Sun Planets

"This discovery is a snapshot of an environment that is very similar to our solar system, but at a much earlier stage of its evolution."

This is the First Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star

The asteroid belt will get turned into dust when, as the Sun is finally dying, it will get incredibly bright, and destroy ithe entire asteroid belt. Fun!