WITH Christmas just a week away, the high street is full of sparkly and pretty outfits for the big day. And oversized bows are proving just as on-trend as trusty sequins this year. Even better ...

After three decades of distinguished work in the United States, world-leading cancer researcher Sun Shao-Cong has returned to China to establish a new lab in Beijing, following what a source said ...

Dick Van Arsdale, a former second-round pick of the Knicks who later became known as the “Original Sun,” has died, the Suns announced Monday on social media. He was 81 years old. No cause of ...

Dick Van Arsdale, the “Original Sun” who scored the franchise’s first points, has died at the age of 81 years old. A second-round pick (10th overall) by the New York Knicks in 1965, he ...

COMIC Jack Whitehall is a double at the darts — dressed as Ali G. He joined mates, all in the same fancy dress, at the PDC World Darts Championship at Alexandra Palace in North London.

Lara Walsh is a Chicago-based writer and editor who covers all things fashion, celebrity, pop culture, travel, and food. When she’s not avidly planning her next trip, she’s writing posts for ...

Our Sun is not a peaceful place. It roils with convection; its magnetic field snaps, finds a connection, snaps again. It unleashes eruptions of energy in the form of violent flares, and plasma in the ...

An artist's impression of a superflare on a Sun-like star as seen in white light (visible band). According to new research, the chance of a massive solar flare bringing down power grids and ...

The sun may produce extremely powerful bursts of radiation more frequently than we thought. Such “superflares” seem to happen as often as once a century, according to a survey of sun-like ...

"Everything about this discovery was surprising." High-energy, powerful, and violent stellar explosions called "superflares" have been found to erupt from stars like the sun roughly once every 100 ...

Observations made using a new method have revealed that sun-like stars produce cataclysmic superflares once every hundred years. Could our sun create one soon? When you purchase through links on ...