The sun has enough nuclear fuel to stay much as it is now for another 5 billion years. After that, it will swell to become a red giant. Eventually, it will shed its outer layers, and the remaining ...

First, and most obviously, are two layers of silicon ... Now the cell is ready for the sun.

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center released this pretty neat animation back in 2012, which shows how light streaming up from inside the sun through its many layers. Did you know that the light ...

A new model of the Sun's solar cycle is producing unprecedentedly accurate predictions of irregularities within the Sun's 11-year heartbeat. The model draws on dynamo effects in two layers of the ...

A small sounding rocket that launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in 2019 is now helping us understand the different layers of the sun. Mapping the magnetic fields that control ...