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.

For observers on Earth, the sun appears as a bright, familiar disk—but what we see is only half the story. Like the moon, one ...

Scientists decode Johannes Kepler’s 417-year-old sunspot drawings, solving a long-standing mystery about solar cycles and the ...

The sun rises and sets every day. We plan our lives around it. It's ironic, then, that "we know so little about the star at the center of our solar system," says Matina Gkioulidou, a space physicist ...

A sudden surge of solar activity has shaken space weather forecasts after NOAA confirmed that the Sun unleashed two powerful ...

If you’ve ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the Sun, you might well think our planet travels along an oval-shaped path that brings it much closer to the Sun at some times of the year than ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of our solar system. It's the largest, brightest ...