The sun is believed to be 4.6 billion years old, but how long this glorious plasma ball exactly took to form is still unknown. A team of international researchers has found the answer to this question ...

How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

Our Sun formed with hundreds to thousands of sibling stars. These stars have drifted apart over billions of years. Scientists use stellar spectra and orbital data to identify potential siblings. The ...

Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Carleton University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. While the upcoming total solar eclipse is a special ...

It’s nature’s greatest naked-eye sight—and it’s happening tomorrow—but the spectacle of a total solar eclipse could soon be faked in space almost at will if Europe’s Proba-3 mission goes to plan. The ...

Our solar system's planets may have formed at differing times, determined by shock waves flowing from the young sun, one astronomer suggests. This theory posits that Earth is one of the youngest ...

The emergence of our solar system could be the result of dwarf galaxy Sagittarius crashing into the Milky Way billions of years ago. New research, based on data from the orbital telescope Gaia, ...

The Sun's counterclockwise rotation (as viewed from its north pole) originates from the initial spin of the solar nebula, a remnant of the larger cloud from which it formed. The direction of this spin ...

Those rings of dust may have prevented Earth from growing into a "super-Earth." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Before Earth and ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions about how our solar system came to be. Tiny shavings from a meteorite ...

The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest and most massive object in the solar system, and it provides the light and heat that life on Earth depends on.