The National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye telescope debuted a close-up of the sun captured by its new, ...

An international team of scientists led by a Rutgers University–New Brunswick astrophysicist has discovered a potentially ...

At 300 light-years away, the interstellar cloud is the closest of its kind ever found to Earth and the largest apparent single structure in the sky.

The order of the planets in the solar system, starting nearest the sun and working ... At the center is the sun, a yellow dwarf star that contains 99.8% of the solar system's mass.

When comets approach perihelion—the closest point to the Sun—the heat from the star can cause the comet to completely disintegrate and disappear from existence. On the other hand, if comets ...

True, we see stars at night, but they are above us during the day too. The sun outshines the others so much that it is as if ...

A newly released image of the sun captured by the world's largest solar telescope shows the surface of our nearest star in unprecedented detail, shedding light on its fiery complexity.The image is ...