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 co.

Our grasp of how stars rotate is "insufficient," with implications on our ability to understand the causes of phenomena on the sun like solar flares and coronal mass ejections that cause aurora and ...

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 ...

Many objects in space rotate. Earth completes a spin in roughly 24 hours, while Venus takes a whopping 243 Earth days. The moon's rotational period is about 27 days. The sun, it turns out, also ...

Observations of the sky recorded thousands of years ago continue to play a remarkable role in modern science, demonstrating that careful human observation has long-lasting value. One particularly ...