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 ...

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 ...

Explained: How Sun Was Formed 4.6 Billion Years Ago The star continued to contract until it reached its final size and density. Hydrogen fusion ignited the suns core, causing the star to emit ...

A newly discovered ice comet from deep space may be over 7 billion years old, making it the most ancient comet scientists ...

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 ...

A small, inconspicuous meteorite may be about to change our understanding of how and when our solar system formed. Tiny shavings from the meteorite Northwest Africa 12264 are challenging the long-held ...

Ancient stars located surprisingly near to our sun formed less than a billion years after the Big Bang — suggesting part of the Milky Way is much older than previously thought, a study has found ...