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.

Astronomers have captured direct images of exoplanets in a star system 130 light years away, providing clues on gas giant ...

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

The sun is too bright for our eyes but telescopes have special filters that allow only extreme ultraviolet light to get through In the centre of the Solar System is the Sun, our star. It is a huge ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first direct images of carbon dioxide in a planet outside the solar system in ...