One Earth compared to the size of the sun. ESA & NASA. Coronal holes are common; there is "nothing unusual here," Scott McIntosh, a solar physicist and the deputy director of the National Center ...

Facts about our Sun, including its distance from Earth, what the Sun is made of, and how long it would take to drive there (hint: a long time!).

At aphelion, Earth’s distance from the sun is about 94.5 million miles. Six months later, at the start of January in the winter, Earth is at its closest point to the sun at 91.5 million miles ...

Two huge coronal holes have appeared on the sun this month, spewing 1.8 million mph solar winds towards the Earth. Here's what they are, how they form and their impact on our planet.

For comparison’s sake, the average distance from the Earth to the moon is about 239,000 miles, according to NASA. The Sun is approximately 93 million miles from Earth.

How long does it take Pluto to orbit the sun? Learn more about how this planet makes one lap around our Solar System.

The dark gap in the Sun's surface opened on December 2 and created a solar wind that is rushing towards Earth. The colossal dark patch, identified as a coronal hole, reached 497,000 miles wide ...

Let's say we want to build a model of the sun and Earth alone. Earth has a radius of about 6,371 kilometers (3,959 miles), but let's represent this with a marble 1 centimeter in diameter.