The Sun is a powerful, awe-inspiring force at the center of our solar system. Its brilliance lights up our sky and sustains ...

Our sun, currently in its prime, is expected to shine for another 5 billion years. Eventually, it will transform into a red ...

The answers to those questions depend on how we define the death of the solar system.

Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of planets forming around HOPS-315, a baby star located 1,300 light-years away ...

Evidence that rocky planets beyond Jupiter formed as rapidly, and at the same time, as the inner planets could transform our understanding of how planets take shape — not only in our solar system, but ...

The celestial body's unusual orbit “implies that something extraordinary occurred" in the early days of the solar system—and ...

The astronomers observed hot minerals just beginning to solidify – the first specks of planet-forming material, the ...

International astronomers have for the first time witnessed the birth of a planetary system beyond Earth's sun that could one ...

Astronomers have discovered an object at the edge of the solar system that is locked in a strange rhythmic dance with the ice ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronomers have discovered the earliest seeds of rocky planets forming in the gas around a baby ...

Scientists have released the closest images ever taken near the sun, captured by NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flying 3.8 million ...

The sun was born 4.5 billion years ago from a vast cloud of cold hydrogen and dust left behind following the death of more massive stars. At that time, the particles were so far from each other ...