The formation of the sun didn't take up all of the cloud it was born from. What was left continued to orbit the star, while planets formed from the leftover material.

How the sun formed. The sun was born about 4.6 billion years ago. Many scientists think the sun and the rest of the solar system formed from a giant, rotating cloud of gas and dust known as the ...

How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) ...

A groundbreaking study published in Communications Earth & Environment has called into question the long-standing assumptions ...

Some 4.6 billion years ago, our Sun was born from a cloud of interstellar gas and dust. It came from a giant molecular cloud — a collection of gas up to 600 light-years in diameter with the mass ...

Is the sun an only child? Or was it born into a (very, very) big family?. The answer would tell us more than just how awkward holiday family reunions can be (if you think yours are bad, imagine ...

Our Universe is 13.8 billion years old, and our Sun formed about 2/3rds of the way through. Here's what came before it.

Our Sun was born 4.5 billion years ago, but did not form alone. Astronomers are sifting through mounds of data, searching for stars that formed with it.

While SLRs probably existed in the part of the filament where the Sun and Solar System formed, the meteorite samples contained too much of a particular aluminum isotope for the interstellar medium ...