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

Drier weather will give way to a seasonal mix of sun, clouds and showers for the last half of this week as a weak surface ...

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

A cloud of collapsing gas created our Sun, the first thing to form in our solar system. This happened about 4½ billion years ago. Then the planets began to emerge, as the billions of ...

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 ...

But when our Sun first formed 4.6 billion years ago, however, it may have been a different matter. Nasa.

Most stars, including the sun, are located in a thin disk rotating around the center of the galaxy.Researchers thought this disk formed around 8 to 10 billion years ago, but with the help of ...