Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Nicknamed the “Big Wheel,” a giant, spiral-shaped disk galaxy was spotted in an unusually crowded part of the early universe just two billion years after the big bang ...

A spiral of light illuminating the night sky captivated observers in Britain and much of Europe on Monday. Its cause: a SpaceX rocket, experts said, after the glowing spectacle ignited widespread ...

Spiral Jetty remains Smithson’s best-known work. Over the years, it has drawn attention to the Great Salt Lake’s natural features, like its otherworldly pink color and ever-shifting water level.

The Sun, as They Might Be Giants taught us, is a mass of incandescent gas, mostly in the form of hydrogen plasma. And its poles are moving slower than its equator: The equator spins once every 24.5 da ...

A large swirl of white light that temporarily outshone vibrant auroras in the Arctic last week was triggered by the death throes of a SpaceX rocket that deployed more than 50 satellites into space.

The planets of our solar system change in position while orbiting a central star, the sun. But does the sun itself move within the solar system?

A large blue swirl that appeared in the night sky and within the aurora borealis did not have to do with aliens but was probably a fuel dump from a SpaceX rocket launch.

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