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?

At times, the sun ejects energetic material into space, which can have consequences for space-based and even ground-based ...

The sun’s outer atmosphere resembles a pufferfish.

Earth is the only life-supporting planet in our Solar System. Until now. Today, we’re bringing Kepler 22-b into our planetary ...

If 3I/ATLAS wasn’t enough of an excitement, our solar system has recently welcomed a new comet visitor. However, like ...

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 ...

The most striking claim about 3I/ATLAS is its estimated age range of 8-14 billion years. This analysis, led by Michele ...

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 ...

Scientists expect the Sun to balloon into a “red giant” star in approximately five billion years, cooking the inner planets into char as it does. But what will happen after our sun dies? While that’s ...

The solar system originated from a collapsing cloud of gas and dust approximately 4.5 billion years ago, with the Sun forming in the central region through nuclear fusion and the planets condensing ...