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 simulation shows turbulent ... was gathered by NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). Launched in 2010 on an Atlas V rocket into a geosynchronous orbit, the observatory is one of many ...

Deep beneath Greenland's ice, NASA radar happened upon Camp Century, a long-lost Cold War base now buried under 100 feet of ...

As a result, thousands of smaller celestial bodies in the outer solar system outside Neptune's orbit were deflected into ...

25 before returning to the solar system. Some past mini-moons ... and remain that way for 56.6 days. In Dunn's simulation, the orbit is shown as the red line, and it only circles about 25% ...