Parker Solar Probe Makes History by Touching the Sun 8 million miles above the Sun's surface on December 24, 2024, traveling ...

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 ...

(WYTV)- Our sun is classified as a G2 medium-sized star. We believe it’s about four billion, 600 million years old, halfway through its lifetime. It burns four million tons of hydrogen every second.

Astronomers measure the speed at which the solar system is hurtling through space by mapping surrounding galaxies and ...

From an early age, we are taught to understand that the planets of our solar system change in position while orbiting a central star, the sun. But does the sun itself move within the solar system?

Is a sun a star or a planet? While science now agrees the sun is a star, new telescopes may soon challenge how we define solar objects.

The highly anticipated solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, might offer some extra fireworks. It’s all thanks to a series of massive explosions that one solar physicist says could be visible during the ...

A newly discovered cluster of objects called the “inner kernel” of the Kuiper belt could teach us about the early history of ...

Meteorites can act as time capsules, preserving molecules from the solar system’s infancy. Certain fingerprints have been detected in these ancient space rocks that suggest a supernova went off right ...