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 ...

This year marks 30 years of SOHO observing our sun, an extraordinary milestone for a mission originally expected to last only ...

These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout ...

(WYTV)- Our sun is classified as a G2 medium-sized star. We believe it’s about four billion, 600 million years old, halfway through its lifetime. It burns four million tons of hydrogen every second.

The Nuclear Furnace at the Sun's Heart The temperature in the Sun's core is about 27 million degrees Fahrenheit (15 million degrees Celsius), hot enough to make fusion reactions work perfectly. 5 ...

On Nov. 6, NASA's Parker Solar Probe passed within 234 miles (376 kilometers) of Venus' surface. The purpose of this close flyby was to accomplish a gravity-assist maneuver, in which the probe would ...

Four misconceptions about the sun's ascension. June 21, 2011— -- From Chalchuapa, El Salvador, to Stonehenge in England, people are honoring the summer solstice today as the sun ascends to the ...

For thousands of years, humans have worshipped the Sun. Our ancestors built monuments and temples to it, and used it to mark the annual cycle of seasons. For ancient Egyptians, their most important ...

The stockings were all hung by the corona with care, In hopes that the Parker Solar Probe would soon be there. Almost no one ever writes about the Parker Solar Probe anymore. Sure, the spacecraft got ...

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.