Comets and asteroids also orbit the sun. Together the Sun, the eight planets, the moons, asteroids and comets make up our Solar System.

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 ...

Astronomers have officially announced the name of the largest structure in the known universe. It was reported earlier this ...

Astrophysicists Reveal Structure of 74 Exocomet Belts Orbiting ... a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to understand how ...

To support its ongoing exploration of the outer Solar System, astronomers here on Earth ... but high enough to constitute a new structure. In the region between 55 and 70 astronomical units ...

Discover Quipu, the universe's largest known structure, spanning 1.3 billion light-years and containing 200 quadrillion solar ...

A new study reveals Quipu, a vast network of galaxy clusters and superclusters, being dubbed the largest structure in the known universe.

"The images reveal a remarkable diversity in the structure of belts. Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our Solar System's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger ...

"The images reveal a remarkable diversity in the structure of belts. Some are narrow rings, as in the canonical picture of a 'belt' like our solar system's Edgeworth-Kuiper belt. But a larger ...

"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...