A planetary scientist proposes that the interiors of Uranus and Neptune are layered, with deep oceans of water above ...

A fascinating new study has shed light on the mysterious interiors of Uranus and Neptune, two of the least explored planets ...

Scientists occasionally describe the Sun as ‘burning’ hydrogen to generate light, but this is not entirely accurate. Hydrogen itself does not undergo combustion, so it cannot burn in the conventional ...

Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist and deputy director at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, told Space.com that the prominence mentioned by Skov appears exactly at the ...

Our ancestors had no problem with the idea that the sun would rise and set every day, providing light and warmth, forever.

A pioneering British nuclear fusion company has raised almost £100m and suggested it could have a pilot plant running within ...

Nuclear fusion has yet to become a practical energy source, despite its promise of abundant, clean power with minimal waste.

The nearby star Vega, featured in the 1997 movie Contact, appears to have a smooth disk devoid of giant planets for reasons ...

The movements of the planets in the Solar System are pretty difficult to get your head around, even before we get started on the dark matter which seems to keep galaxies together and rotating with ...

Fast radio bursts — powerful and poorly understood cosmic eruptions — tend to occur in massive galaxies that host long-dead ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

Their issues, however, extend well beyond the football field and go as far as 93 million miles away to that big flaming ball of hydrogen and helium in the sky known as the sun. That issue became ...