The Sun is mostly hydrogen and helium. Its core temperature is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit. The Sun is about 4.6 billion years old. It's a G-type main-sequence star. Key takeaways sponsored by The ...

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 ...

Isaac Asimov described the solar system as the sun, Jupiter, and debris. He wasn't wrong—the sun is 99.8 percent of the mass of the solar system. But what is that giant ball of fire in the sky? How ...

It’s using April’s solar eclipse as an opportunity to conduct a special experiment in which millions of people can participate. A video (top) released by NASA on Tuesday shows exactly how you can help ...

Jul. 9—Perhaps nothing is more apropos in summer than learning about our sun. You can this weekend at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. Or check out these other bright events. Got an ...

The surface of our sun is a wild, violent place and now we can see it in exquisite detail, thanks to the first images returned by the National Science Foundation's Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope ...

Stars are born in clusters. Some stay together as binaries, some drift apart and some are violently thrown out of the family. The Pleiades are young clustered blue stars being born from dust and gas.

Just released first images from the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope reveal unprecedented detail of the sun’s surface and preview the world-class products to come from ...

The sun is one of billions of stars in our Milky Way galaxy, and scientists believe there are billions and probably more galaxies in the universe. (It was long thought that there were about 200 ...

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has done an extraordinary job teaching us about our Sun while achieving record distances from the latter’s surface, coming within 4.51 million miles (7.26 million kilometers) ...

As large as our sun seems to us, it's dwarfed by other stars in the universe. Credit: Creators.com illustration I’m always excited when springtime is just around the corner. It’ll soon be time to get ...