The time it takes for the sun to completely rotate depends where on the sun you are measuring.

In February 2022, SpaceX launched a group of Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit. Soon after launch, many of them began falling back into the atmosphere rather than following their planned paths.

Earth's magnetic field was struck by a "severe" solar storm Monday (Jan. 19), triggering vibrant auroras in the U.S. and ...

The Sun has hurled a massive cloud of charged gas toward Earth, a coronal mass ejection that can carry billions of tons of plasma and temporarily reshape the planet’s magnetic shield. As the ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A striking S-shape structure, up to 10 times wider than Earth, emerged on the sun's surface ...

When the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) weather satellite GOES-19 turns its gaze toward the sun, scientists don't expect to see our home planet. But there it was ...

The Earth stands alone in the solar system as a habitable world, as far as we know. But that doesn’t mean we don’t get visitors, most often in the form of (usually harmless) asteroids. Some even ...

In the distant past, the solar system was rife with impacts and collisions. Millions of rocky objects zoomed chaotically through the system, smashing into each other in collisional cascades. Over time ...

A pull in the right direction ...

The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists ...