Astronomers reconstructed the Solar System’s movement relative to the Milky Way’s core and found it passed through the ...

Astronomers have discovered that our solar system traveled through a dense, star-forming region near Orion about 14 million years ago. This cosmic journey may have altered Earth’s environment, ...

The stars as seen from Earth would have looked dimmer 14 million years ago, as the solar system was in the middle of passing ...

Gravity provides the force needed to maintain the stable orbit of planets around a star and also of moons and artificial satellites around a planet. The moons around planets in the Solar System ...

The Oort cloud is a shell of icy objects that forms the very outskirts of our Solar System. Recently, a group of researchers discovered that the inner portion of the Oort cloud likely has spiral arms ...

A University of Vienna study suggests that the solar system's movement through the galaxy affected Earth's climate millions ...

(This latter motion is called centripetal acceleration ... started as a kid when she helped her sister build a model solar system in the Bronx. She got her first shot at astronomy writing ...

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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.