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.

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HI, STEPH. HEY, DARLENE. RON. WELL, A BIG QUESTION HAS ALWAYS BEEN BEEN HOW DID OUR UNIVERSE, OUR GALAXY AND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM COME TO BE? WHILE THE JAMES WEBB TELESCOPE IS GIVING A GLIMPSE INTO THAT, ...

Bits of glass called Hiroshimaites may have formed by processes similar to those that formed the sun and the planets. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

NPR's Scott Detrow talks with Damien Galano, project manager for European Space Agency's Proba-3 mission, about a new plan to study solar eclipses. Seeing a total solar eclipse along its path of ...

Researchers from theUniversity of Hawai’i have cracked the mystery of solar rain that occurs in the Sun’s corona, 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 ...