How big it is: 865,000 miles (1.392 million kilometers) across How far away it is: 93 million miles (150 million km) What type of star it is: A yellow dwarf star The sun is the star at the center of ...

(WYTV)- Our sun is classified as a G2 medium-sized star. We believe it’s about four billion, 600 million years old, halfway through its lifetime. It burns four million tons of hydrogen every second.

Space is inaccessible to the vast majority of us, but it’s not as far away as you might think. The von Kármán Line, which is ...

Space questions everything about what we know about existence and consists of gigantic stars, icy comets and distant worlds ...

The cosmos is truly magnificent, partly due to how massive it is. No matter how much we learn about space, there are always new incredible things to discover, each more amazing than the last. If ...

These images help to unravel the magnetic mechanisms driving the sun's behavior and shaping the space environment throughout the solar system. The European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission ...

Solar expert Dr. Ryan French explains how to safely photograph the sun and all of its stellar features with the use of cameras, lenses, telescopes and filters. As we all learn from a young age, the ...

The Sun is the cental star of the solar system. It drives the seasons on Earth, and other important factors including ocean currents and weather climate. There are billions of stars like the Sun ...

Late on Oct. 21, 2025, a spectacular coronal mass ejection (CME) erupted from the far side of the sun, an area currently dominated by the powerful and persistent Active Region 4246. The eruption ...