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It’s the center of our solar system and a key player in Earth’s ability to support complex life, but while it may seem special to us, scientists say the sun is just another ‘ordinary’ solar-type star.

A viral video shows how much of the sun will be obscured by the moon in the upcoming total solar eclipse in parts of the U.S. outside the path of totality, including how the celestial occurrence will ...

Pulses from the Sun. Credit: JPL/NASA/SDO/AIA. An international team of researchers from the SETI Institute, Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Lab (LMSAL), Bay Area Environmental Research ...

In a world first, Japanese researchers used the Fugaku supercomputer to reproduce imbalances in the sun’s rotation, a phenomenon that has puzzled astronomers for centuries. The scientists from Chiba ...

China’s ambitious space programme has entered a new dawn thanks to an advanced sun simulation chamber that began operations in Beijing at the end of last month. The solar simulator had the floor area ...

The sheath of comets surrounding our solar system is still theoretical, but it matches the available evidence. A new simulation from researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands models the ...

A new simulation of the sun's magnetic field, which represents both large-scale and small-scale magnetic cycles, has been created by Japanese scientists. They hope this model will help them better ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new study, and some gorgeous simulations, may have revealed how order arises from disorder in ...

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Sun Peaks Resort near Kamloops in B.C.'s southern Interior plans to simulate an avalanche Saturday to prepare staff for an emergency. Dummies will be buried under the snow high on the mountain in an ...