After four decades of searching, solar scientists have at long last found evidence of a type of seismic wave in our Sun. Thanks to ESA (European Space Agency) and NASA’s Solar and Heliospheric ...

Based on time-series photometry from three different telescopes, an international team of astronomers has performed a detailed asteroseismology study of WD J0049−2525—the most massive pulsating white ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The sun's rotation rate ...

For decades solar scientists have had to make do with no more than brief glimpses of active regions on our Sun before they rotate out of view. Now, for the first time, researchers managed to track a ...

Ancient Chinese astronomers observed a solar eclipse in 709 BCE with remarkable detail. These old records are now helping scientists understand Earth's rotation changes over thousands of years. They ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In 1612, Galileo Galilei looked at the sun through a telescope, drew what he saw, and observed that sunspots — dark areas near the ...

The Sun turns, but not in the way a solid object would. It has no hard surface, no fixed edge to follow. What scientists describe as solar rotation comes from watching patterns move across a glowing, ...