Discover interesting facts about the sun, the solar system's central star that supports all life on Earth.

Something incredibly strange is happening in our cosmic neighborhood: a mysterious gravitational disturbance is hurtling ...

Astronomers believe it formed about 4.5 billion years ago, when a massive interstellar cloud of gas and dust collapsed on itself, giving rise to the star that anchors our solar system—that big ...

Though there are still some unanswered questions, the scientists suspect that if the clouds of the filament the Sun and Solar System formed in were sufficiently large, our star and planets would ...

These snared worlds could be traded like Pokémon cards with neighboring star ... drawing in bodies much bigger than comets or asteroids. "We found that when objects are captured into our solar ...

“The best match for today's outer solar system that we found with our simulations is a star that was slightly lighter than our Sun – about 0.8 solar masses,” said Amith Govind, co-author of ...

A new astronomical study suggests that Earth could one day be ejected from the solar system, not by the aging of the Sun, but by the unpredictable trajectory of a rogue star.While such a scenario ...

The tale of our sun may begin with another star: a predecessor whose fiery death brought about the birth of our solar system. According to the nebular hypothesis, our star system formed from the ...

By Robin George Andrews Fomalhaut, a star just 25 light-years away ... or ordinary, is our solar system? “It’s hard to draw conclusions about if we’re common or not, if our specific ...