The Baltimore Sun considered a few outstanding scenarios that raise the question: can humanity survive long enough to figure ...

It’s generally understood that if humanity wants to persist long-term, we’re going to have to get off the planet for good. Even if we manage to avoid war, famine, disease, and asteroids falling out of ...

The Sun is one of the most important parts of our little circle of life. In fact, you could say that pretty much all known life on Earth relies on the Sun in some shape, form, or fashion. But the Sun ...

People sometimes ask what would happen if the Sun suddenly exploded, often after seeing a dramatic film or picture online. It ...

Our Sun is doomed. Billions of years from now, the Sun will deplete its hydrogen fuel and swell to a red giant before becoming a white dwarf. It’s a well-known story, and one astronomer has understood ...

The centre of our solar system-the Sun- is very likely going through its middle age, according to the data published in June this year from the Gaia spacecraft. The spacecraft has estimated the sun's ...

All good things must come to an end. That’s true even for our Sun — as constant a presence as it may seem. While it has burned brightly in our planet’s daytime sky for 4.6 billion years, it will ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...