Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most detailed simulation of the interior of stars and disproved a theory scientists have believed for 45 years: that stars switch their ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Our grasp of how stars rotate is "insufficient," with implications on ...

Spring, summer, fall and winter—the seasons on Earth change every few months, around the same time every year. It's easy to take this cycle for granted here on Earth, but not every planet has a ...

Astronomers have uncovered what appear to be 21 neutron stars in orbit around stars like our Sun. The discovery is surprising because it is not clear how a star that exploded winds up next to a star ...

Since the time of Galileo, the Sun’s ‘differential rotation’, with a fast equator and slow poles, has been a longstanding mystery of solar physics. New supercomputer simulations suggest that most ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The Parker Solar Probe is gearing up for a final swing past Venus on ...

Humanity has shifted an asteroid’s orbit around the sun for the first time. This was achieved by NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) mission in 2022, but the effect has only now been ...

Strong magnetic fields keep the equator spinning faster than the poles and prevent a rotation flip, even as stars slow down with age Researchers at Nagoya University in Japan have conducted the most ...