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.

Astronomers are on the hunt for a mysterious ninth planet, known as Planet Nine, which could change our understanding of the solar system. Is this hidden world real, or just a myth?

The planets in solar do not have circular orbit around the Sun ... the key to understanding the peculiar orbits of the solar system's giant planets, according to new research published on the ...

8 planets orbit the Sun. The closest are the four rocky planets, the remaining gas planets inhabit deeper space. The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids ...

Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal, the paper looks at the position of trans-Neptunian objects in the solar system that have an orbit beyond ... with real-time imaging of ...

never happened as a result of the fictional world not being real. But researchers have long wondered what the impact might be if another world were to be added to our solar system. In particular ...

the Kuiper belt beyond the orbit of Neptune, and the Oort cloud. Our Solar System is full of mysteries, but if the inner planets are a puzzle, the boundary between the Solar System and ...

Billions of years ago, in the frigid outer reaches of our solar system, two icy worlds collided. Rather than destroying each other in a cosmic ...

Ever since the beginning of the Space Age, the inner planets and the Earth-Moon system ... solar mission. Launched in 1995, SOHO is stationed in a halo orbit at Lagrange point L 1 and provides ...

People around the world will have a chance this weekend to catch what could be the year’s most stunning view of the largest planet in our solar system. Jupiter on Saturday will shine at its brightest ...