Our Sun is actually a cosmic refugee. Around 4.6 billion years ago, it first ignited in a hostile, radiation-blasted neighborhood 10,000 light-years closer to the Milky Way’s center than it is now.

For billions of years before reaching its current location, the Sun may have slowly travelled as part of a large group, or “wave,” of stars drifting out from the inner parts of the Milky Way. This ...

The Sun orbits in the thin disk of the Milky Way. It's located 27,000 light-years (8.3 kiloparsecs) from the Galactic Center, on the inner edge of the Orion spiral arm. It orbits around the galaxy ...

Our sun was born 4.6 billion years ago near the crowded center of the Milky Way and then migrated roughly 10,000 light-years ...

Scientists have uncovered evidence that our Sun may have traveled across the Milky Way as part of a massive migration of ...

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 ...

Far from the harsh galaxy center, they reached a location that is hospitable for life.

Scientists have analyzed more than 40 years of astronomical data to uncover evidence that the sun's internal structure subtly ...

accompany the short but spectacular lives of massive, luminous stars. The new theory is described in a “Perspectives” article appearing in the May 21 issue of Science. The article was written by a ...