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Because scientific names are used to distinguish one thing from another thing, whether it's astronomical nomenclature or Linnaean names for creatures. Since there's, at present, only one star around which the planet the whole of humanity lives on rotates, there's no real need to draw that distinction.
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Why doesn't the sun (as in our friendly local self-sustaining fusion reaction) have a scientific name? Just seems a bit "that thing over there" when it could be called something like Megatron-85-4 mkii or something...