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The Sun's habitable zone as a red giant

When the Sun becomes a red giant, will the outer planets and moons become more temperate?

Solar System, Stars

ESA’s Solar Orbiter reveals the Sun’s poles for the first time

Solar System, Today in the History of Astronomy

June 10, 1927: The birth of Eugene Parker

World’s biggest solar telescope captures sunspots as never seen before

Punch NFI first light image

PUNCH sees first light, prepares to study how the Sun creates our space weather

The Sun

Before Einstein, what did astronomers think powered the Sun?

artist's concept of PUNCH constellation in space

Robotic Spaceflight, Science, Solar System, Stars

NASA’s PUNCH is set to study how the Sun influences the space around us

Artist's concept of the interior of a white dwarf

Solar System, Stars

After our Sun becomes a white dwarf and cools completely, what will be left?

2017 total solar eclipse

A total solar eclipse may have ended Egypt’s 4th dynasty

Artist's concept showing the Parker Solar Probe approaching the solar corona

Solar System, Stars

The Parker Solar Probe just made its closest ever approach to the Sun

The Sun

Solar System, Stars

What’s in the National Academies’ Decadal Survey for Solar and Space Physics?

Sun-like stars experience superflares roughly once per century