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 ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's ...

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

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

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

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The Kuiper Belt extends from the orbit of Neptune, which around 30 astronomical units from the Sun, out to around 50. The New ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

"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 ...

Jamie Carter is an award-winning reporter who covers the night sky. Surging across the solar system from the sun, the solar wind carries charged particles that strike the planets, on Earth causing ...

The Sun and its planets – Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune The different planets have different properties and conditions. In general, as the distance from the ...