You're not imaging it. The sun has been rising later in Illinois following the winter solstice. But the days aren't getting shorter. Here's why.

Astronomers have found that the rotational profile of a nearby star, V889 Herculis, differs considerably from that of the Sun. The observation provides insights into the fundamental stellar ...

Analysis of a century of solar images from an Indian observatory reveals that different features on the Sun’s chromosphere 1, the layer above the visible photosphere, all show the star’s uneven ...

Earth’s orbit around the Sun is not circular, but an ellipse that is slightly elongated with an eccentricity of 0.017. (An eccentricity of 0 is a circle, while the dwarf planet Pluto has a relatively ...