Astronomers have captured a stunning new view of the surface of an aging red giant star, revealing new clues about what the future may hold for our own sun. The star, known as W Hydrae, is located ...

Starspots are more common among red giant stars than previously thought. Astronomers report that approximately eight percent of red giants exhibit such spots. Although red giants are generally ...

"The large-amplitude variations in the brightness of the red giant XX Tri have been observed before, so it was also known that the variations were caused by dark spots, coming in and out view as ...

The photos are in, and they are out of this world. NASA scientists and space junkies on Wednesday got a front-row-seat look at Jupiter's Giant Red Spot, a mysterious area that has mesmerized ...

Take Europa, for example. It's an icy world today and will stay that way for a long time. However, when the sun enters the red giant phase of its evolution in about 12 billion years, researchers ...

"As the sun becomes a red giant, the habitable zone will move to around Jupiter and Saturn's orbit, and many of these moons will become ocean planets," Zhang said. "I think, in that case, humanity ...

Astronomers have captured a stunning new view of the surface of an aging red giant star, revealing new clues about what the future may hold for our own sun. The star, known as W Hydrae, is located ...

Giant 'senior citizen' sunspot on 3rd trip around the sun could break a century-old record A mysterious, 100-year solar cycle may have just restarted NASA's Parker Solar Probe spots powerful ...

People always want to know what will happen to Earth when the sun eventually swells up as a red giant. For one thing, the expanding sun will turn the inner planets into cinders. It will almost ...

These spots are even larger than the entire surface of our sun — which is why XX Tri has been dubbed "the most spotted star in the sky," Kővári said. Related Stories: ...

These spots are even larger than the entire surface of our sun — which is why XX Tri has been dubbed "the most spotted star in the sky," Kővári said. Get the Space.com Newsletter ...