Stars, including our sun, regularly emit solar flares, or strong bursts of electromagnetic radiation. Superflares, however, are much more powerful than typical solar flares, emitting up to 10,000 ...

The closest binary stars to Earth, Alpha Centauri A and B, orbit each other at about 24 times the Earth-Sun distance, or 3.6 billion miles. Suggestions that our Sun could also have a faint ...

Pretty big, right? And while the sun might dwarf the Earth, in reality, it is miniscule compared to some of the largest stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The most massive star within 10,000 ...