Pretty big, right? And while the sun might dwarf the Earth, in reality, it is miniscule compared to some of the largest stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way. The most massive star within 10,000 ...

The Sun is about 100 times wider than the Earth and the Earth could fit into the Sun over one million times. It would take 500 years for the fastest person on Earth to run the distance from the ...

Earth will reach perihelion at 09:00 Universal Time on Saturday, January 4, 2025, the closest point to the sun in its annual, slightly elliptical orbit. The word comes from the Greek words peri ...

The Earth formed over 4.6 billion years ago out of a mixture of dust and gas around the young sun. It grew larger thanks to countless ... Earth grew to its final size through one last major collision ...

Astronomers have discovered an Earth-size ... whose tiny size makes it easier for telescopes to detect orbiting planets. In ...

As we approach solar maximum, something strange is happening to the sun's magnetic field. We explore this flip in polarity in more detail and look at the effects it could have on Earth.