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 ...

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 ...

Purdue professor along with a team of scientists analyze asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission to give a better ...