After 11 seasons as one of the faces of the Connecticut Sun, five-time WNBA All-Star Alyssa Thomas is being traded to the ...

It takes about 25 days for the sun to complete one full rotation ... the equator and faster at the poles. One star, known as V889 Herculis, looks like it is breaking the trend and scientists ...

Solar flares explode from our star's surface when potent and changing ... if the sun has all the requisite properties of these distant sun-like stars that would stoke such relatively frequent ...

We are staring "right down the barrel of it, which is really quite surprising to me — we're just lucky." One of the most photographed objects in the night sky is the Ring Nebula, wreckage of a ...

While planets circle the sun in what's called and heliocentric orbit, they rarely fall together in what appears to the human ...

Nearly 300 light-years away, it has a Sun-like star with two giant planets in orbit. Dubbed TYC 8998-760-1, this system could help scientists understand how our own solar system came into existence.

This helped them better understand the range of possible outcomes after a Sun-like star engulfs a planet. They found that it depends heavily on the planet’s size and the star’s current stage.

In deciphering sagas of eons past, astronomers find few examples more intriguing than Messier 67, or M67, which is a large, loosely bound group of sun-like stars dwelling ... that it could not have ...

Stars like our own Sun produce “superflares” around once every 100 years, surprising astronomers who had previously estimated that such events occurred only every 3000 to 6000 years. The result, from ...

Solar researchers announced findings in December about sun-like stars that make it all the more imperative we closely monitor our star due to its potentially dangerous solar superflares.

It’s now the third brightest object in the sky—after the Sun and the Moon. However, its dazzling performance as the bright “Evening Star” begins to unravel this month. After reaching its ...