The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects – planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets – in orbit around it.

The Sun is the largest object in the Solar System. The Sun’s huge gravitational field keeps many other objects - planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets - in orbit around it. The Sun and ...

The data used for the simulations was gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Launched in 2010 on an Atlas V ...

We're showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...

The study tracks icy bodies subject to some kind of perturbation that’s injecting them into the orbit of Neptune before they leave the solar system entirely ... all of the patterns that ...

A startup founded by a physicist with a background in financial services claims it could revolutionize space-based solar ...

Today, only the largest planets in the solar system have rings, but a new study suggests Earth may have been a ringed planet ...

a protective bubble created by the Sun that extends beyond the orbit of Pluto The Voyager 2 probe, which left Earth in 1977, has become the second human-made object to leave our Solar System.

NASA has successfully extended into orbit an 80 m 2 (860 square foot ... The Advanced Composite Solar Sail System (ACS3) was ...