The very long lives of our Sun, or any star, hinges on a delicate balance of forces.

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 ...

All we have is a single day. Don’t miss Yara Shahidi and Charles Melton in The Sun Is Also A Star , only in theaters May 17.

It’s “common knowledge”—and the scare quotes should be a warning—that the sun is an average star. But it’s not, and in fact it’s not even close: The sun is in the top 90th percentile of stars by mass.

Astronomy Hubble revisits stunning Trifid Nebula after 30 years, and spots a growing jet of energy — Space photo of the week Astronomy Astronomers map one of the largest structures in the universe, ...