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.

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

and proved the heliocentric model (Mars’ retrograde motion). Students could calculate the distances and sizes of the planets in the solar system based on the Sun being the size of a football.

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites, but there ...

They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ... between Mars and Jupiter influence the inner solar system? Effects on orbital motion, obliquity, and eccentricity, Icarus (2024).