Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest ...

Recent research advances the hypothesis that our star may have undertaken a long journey from the galactic core, in the ...

The Solar System is a weird place filled with incredible physics and geological oddities that often break down in human terms ...

A NASA mission to study the heliosphere—the sun's magnetic bubble that shields our solar system—and develop a better understanding of space weather was launched from the agency's Kennedy Space Center ...

Researchers at NYU Abu Dhabi have discovered new large-scale waves moving deep inside the sun, driven by magnetic fields far below the surface. These waves provide a window into parts of the sun that ...

The sun is the lifeblood of our solar system, a blazing star that has held everything together for over 4.6 billion years. But like all things in the universe, even our sun will not last forever. If ...

The standard story of the origin of our solar system has gone like this: 4.6 billion years ago, a giant cloud of dust hung frozen in space. Then the explosion of a nearby star caused part of that dust ...