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's activity is what gives us beautiful auroras — but it also has dramatic negative effects on satellites that go ...

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

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

Trying to understand the makeup and evolution of the solar system's Kuiper belt has kept researchers busy since it was ...

Its orbit would be very distant ... times larger than Earth could be "shepherding" smaller objects in the solar system. Batygin and Brown, strong advocates that Planet Nine exists, have been ...

This showed him the planet was in fact in orbit around the Sun ... they are found further out in our solar system.” Given this distance and their pattern of movement, it’s easy to see how ...