The sun's gravity could act like a giant magnifying glass to help view distant exoplanets in amazing detail. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

"We don't need to go into space to do these experiments anymore." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Physicists have replicated the ...

What happens if you do a big jump? Your body goes up into the air. But then it comes back down again. The reason you don’t just keep going up, up, up is because the force of gravity pushes your body ...

When we think about orbits, we usually picture the Earth zooming around the sun. But does the sun just sit there? Or is it on its own journey? I asked my friend Guy Worthey. He’s a space scientist at ...

If you were to take a random blob of gas and heat it to solar temperatures (roughly 10,000 degrees Fahrenheit [5,500 degrees Celsius] at the surface or over 27 million F [15 million C] in the core), ...

Our readers explore what might happen to Earth if the sun vanished, from dramatic shifts in gravity to the complete loss of light for photosynthesis If the sun were to suddenly vanish, the effects ...