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 ...

Under a microscope, the newly described organism Solarion looks less like a cell and more like a tiny star, its body ringed ...

The organic molecules that were the building blocks for life on Earth could have formed in the dusty disk that surrounded our sun before the solar system had planets, a new computer model shows.

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 ...

As a ball of ultra-hot gas, how does the sun rotate? This complex form of rotation drives some fascinating phenomena. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Our sun may be one of the billions of stars in the galaxy, but it’s the only star right here in our solar system. It keeps us warm and gives us light, which is important for all kinds of living things ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Recently, rings of light have been spotted forming around the sun in Utah skies. According to the National Weather Service, these "halos" of light are created by ice crystals ...