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1 / 6 | Visual: In this diagram, J, S, U, and N are the solar system’s giant planets. What’s the collective name for the objects in blue?

The sun is much more than a bright light in the sky. It's a giant ball of burning gas that holds our cosmic neighborhood together and without it, there would be no life on Earth. Our home star is also ...

Astronomers have traced the growth of Earth's solar system back to its cosmic womb, before the sun and planets were born. The solar system coalesced from a huge cloud of dust and gas that was isolated ...

Small icy moons in the outer reaches of our solar system may hide boiling oceans underneath their surfaces, a new study finds.