In about six billion years, the Sun, a medium-size yellow star, will have puffed up to about two hundred times its current size. In this phase, our parent star will be known as a Red Giant.

However, this would only be Earth's future if our planet manages to survive the sun's eventual transformation into a swollen red giant. This transformation is expected to happen around 5 billion ...

can be linked to the dynamo mechanism operating inside the sun," co-author Zsolt Kővári explained in a statement. "The large-amplitude variations in the brightness of the red giant XX Tri have ...

Stars like our sun fuse hydrogen in their cores into helium ... At this stage, the star becomes a large red giant. Because a red giant is so large, its heat spreads out and the surface ...

Astronomers have been tracking starspots on a red giant star, XX Trianguli, and their findings reveal unpredictable internal behaviour. Unlike the sun, this distant star’s surface activity doesn ...

The year is 2092, and four space sweepers (three humans and one android) travel through space collecting debris in their ship ...