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 ...

Bubbles full of stars are now shedding light on how our sun and its siblings might have formed, scientists find. Stars like our sun likely formed in clusters associated with massive stars. These huge ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

You might assume that there has always been water on Earth — that water was there from the very beginning when our planet formed. But scientists increasingly think that water on Earth may have ...

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.