Saturn, the sixth planet from the Sun, captivates scientists with its massive size, stunning rings, and diverse moons.

A NASA mission, IMAP, will investigate and map the sun's particles and energy across the entire heliosphere, using a ...

These systems now rank among the best in the world, and they’ve helped set multiple records in China’s fusion research,’ ...

IN the issue of NATURE for February 27 (p. 699), Prof. Collie and Mr. Patterson have directed attention to numerous approximate coincidences between lines of neon and hydrogen, from which it is ...

The Sun is the source of life on Earth, but like everything in the Universe, it has its life cycle. Now our sun is in a stable phase - a yellow dwarf - and scientists can already predict what will ...

When they reach the end of their long evolutions, smaller stars—those up to eight times as massive as our own sun—typically become white dwarfs. These ancient stars are incredibly dense.

A star like the Sun is at equilibrium - gravity tends to pull it inwards, and radiation pressure from the nuclear reactions tends to expand it outwards. In other words, the gravitational collapse ...