Our early Sun’s rate of rotation may be one reason we’re here to talk about it, astrobiologists now say. The key likely lies in the fact that between the first hundred million to the first ...

The sun's differential rotation pattern has puzzled scientists for decades: While the poles rotate with a period of approximately 34 days, mid-latitudes rotate faster and the equatorial region ...

That giant flaming star in the sky does rotate, but moves at a much slower pace than the Earth. It takes 24 hours for the Earth to make a full rotation, but since the sun isn't a solid object like ...

Solar rotation rates. Credit: NASA Most Astronomy 101 courses continually pound the idea that our own star is almost boringly average. After all, it’s only one of billions of G-spectral type ...

Long-lasting plasma flows 15 times the diameter of Earth transport heat from the sun’s depths to its surface, helping explain solar rotation.

NASA is allowing you to engage in an extended gazing session at our planet's star this week with the release of a new video that reveals the sun -- rotation, solar flares and all -- in ...

This significant discovery explains how the duration of the magnetic cycle of a star depends on its rotation, and may help us understand violent space weather around the Sun and similar stars. During ...

Kuhn’s team calculates that over that time it would cause a slowdown of about 3 per cent in the rotation of the outermost 100 kilometres of the sun – about 0.01 per cent of its radius – and ...

The interior of the Sun does not rotate at the same rate at all latitudes. The physical origin of this differential rotation is not fully understood. It turns out, long-period solar oscillations ...