Stories by John N. Bahcall

Painstaking observations show that the sun emits fewer of these elusive particles than theories predict. This deficit challenges current understanding of physics and of the process by which the sun shines

The largest astronomical telescope designed to operate beyond the interfering effects of the earth's atmosphere is scheduled to be transported into orbit by the U.S. space shuttle in 1985

A giant trap has been set deep underground to catch a few of the neutrinos that theory predicts should be pouring out of the sun. Their capture would prove that the sun runs on thermonuclear power