Finding a bubble of hot gas blown by the stellar wind from a young star gives researchers a peek at what our sun was like when it was young.

A central finding of the research showed that surface changes in starspots on XX Trianguli do not follow sun-like magnetic ...

Every now and then, the sun erupts with a powerful flare that could do some serious damage. Experts don’t know […] ...

This means that on average, one sun-like star produces a superflare approximately once per century. "High performance dynamo ...

Researchers determined that stars similar to the sun generate superflares roughly once a century, a rate much higher than expected. The findings suggest that we could be due for an extraordinarily ...

but they're the most common type of star in the universe. The coolest, dimmest red dwarf stars are barely twenty percent the mass of the Sun, and less than one percent as bright. It's thought that ...

“It’ll be inside the upper atmosphere of the sun, literally touching the star,” Nicki Rayl, NASA’s deputy director of heliophysics, tells Julia Jacobo and Mary Kekatos of ABC New ...