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.

The Sun's magnetic field does impact the movement of plasma on the Sun's surface, but it does not actually impact the amount ...

Fact-based stories from our cosmic neighbourhood, one star or constellation at a time. Name it, navigate it, know it.

Anyone troubled by storms on the Sun will now have an extra week’s early warning of eruption risks, by courtesy of the SOHO spacecraft. Teams in France and the USA have found two different ways of ...

On Christmas Eve 2024, a human-made spacecraft came closer to the Sun than any other piece of technology our species has ever made. The Parker Solar Probe, as it's called, came within 3.8 million ...

NASA's record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24).

NASA’s Parker Solar Probe dove extremely close to the solar surface on Dec. 24. The spacecraft should get nearer to the sun than any other human-made object in history — within 3.86 million miles. 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 ...