How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

Even if Earth does survive, it won’t be pretty. The temperature of our planet will be about 1,300 degrees C, hot enough to ...

Very massive stars are cosmic "rock stars" that live fast, die young and leave black holes in their place. During this ...

This will cause the outer layers of the Sun to expand dramatically, transforming it into a "red giant." During this phase, the Sun will swell to immense proportions, engulfing Mercury and Venus.

In this video, we take a deep dive into the Sun’s mysterious interior, breaking down its layers, from the outer corona to its core. The Sun, though incredibly far away, is a fascinating example ...

A STRONOMERS are accustomed to divide the outer regions of the sun into four parts: (1) the photospheric layers, (2) the reversing layer, (3) the chromosphere, (4) the corona. In this address I ...

An international team, led by Instituto de Astrofísica e Ciências do Espaço (IA) researcher Ângela Santos, has made the first ...

The outer layers that swell during the red-giant phase will become a shell of gas called a surrounding planetary nebula. This shell will be shed after approximately 1 billion years.