SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) — Recently, rings of light have been spotted forming around the sun in Utah skies. According to the National Weather Service, these "halos" of light are created by ice crystals ...

The sun is believed to be 4.6 billion years old, but how long this glorious plasma ball exactly took to form is still unknown. A team of international researchers has found the answer to this question ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (WOOD) — Few things can add a splash of magic to your day like an ethereal halo perfectly encircling the sun in the sky, but how do these things form? Conditions must be perfect ...

Bright patches of light, known as sun dogs, appear when sunlight bends through hexagonal ice crystals in high-altitude clouds ...

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 ...

The organic molecules that were the building blocks for life on Earth could have formed in the dusty disk that surrounded our sun before the solar system had planets, a new computer model shows.

We worked out how many trips each of the solar system's eight planets has taken around the sun over the past 4.6 billion years. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

What happens if you do a big jump? Your body goes up into the air. But then it comes back down again. The reason you don’t just keep going up, up, up is because the force of gravity pushes your body ...

Discover how scientists have used iron isotopes to determine the likely origin of the Mars-sized planet named Theia.