The sun emits light across all the visible colors in the electromagnetic spectrum fairly evenly. When these come together united in sunlight the sun appears white. This is useful because if this ...

NASA is about to make history. Its Parker Solar Probe is set to fly closer to the sun than any object in history. The mission ...

The sun is white—kind of. It depends on your interpretation of color, the way colors work, the way our eyes see and, just as importantly, the air we see through.

If you want to have some fun, fire up Twitter and search “what color is the sun.” Because, yes, that is a thing on Elon Musk’s social media platform, and, turns out, most of us probably don ...

What would happen to our planet and solar system? Well, for one thing, if the sun did blow up, we likely wouldn't know about it at first. That's because light from the sun takes a while to reach us.

The Beatles also sang about The Sun, in a song that indicated that The Sun was about to come out called “Here Comes the Sun.” As far as we can tell, The Sun never actually comes out at the end of the ...

Plus, the sun is so bright that astronomers can study details of its light with exquisite precision. That should allow them to determine the exact abundances of the sun’s chemical elements.

If and when physicists are able to pin down the metal content of the sun, that number could upend much of what we thought we knew about the evolution and life span of stars.

Fusion is the process that powers the sun and the stars. It's the opposite of nuclear fission, the process used in today's nuclear power plants, which splits atoms apart.