Solar System Update

Looking beyond to worlds around other stars.

Solar system update.

Delving deep into our solar system. Countless asteroids some with their own satellites. Astronomy articles on the eight planets plus the two dwarf planets pluto and eris. Everywhere imaginable nasa is out there.

And vast reaches of highly tenuous gas and dust known as the interplanetary medium. Nasa s exploration spans the universe. The sun is the controller of all the planets and satellites of the solar system. Great pictures of everything in the solar system.

This simulated view of our solar system runs on real data. The best moon in our solar system is leaving its home planet behind. Observing the sun and its effects on earth. By jennifer leman jun 3 2020 queen s brian may is investigating all the asteroids.

This digital orrery a model of the solar system runs on a light mobile mobile friendly version of nasa s eyes on the solar system software. The sun and its planets satellites planets comets meteorites the family of the sun called the solar system. This site is maintained by the planetary science communications team at nasa s jet propulsion laboratory and goddard space flight center for nasa s science mission directorate. There are 5 planets in the solar system 4 satellites with thousands of asteroids and millions of comets.

Solar system assemblage consisting of the sun and those bodies orbiting it. Read all news including political news current affairs and news headlines online on solar system today. 8 planets with about 170 known planetary satellites. Comets and other icy bodies.

The position of the planets moons and spacecraft are shown where they are right now. Our solar system consists of our star the sun and everything bound to it by gravity the planets mercury venus earth mars jupiter saturn uranus and neptune dwarf planets such as pluto dozens of moons and millions of asteroids comets and meteoroids.