Solar System
Also known as planetary house, sun system, The Solar System
the Sun, its planets and their moons
AI overview
The Solar System is the Sun and all the planets and moons that orbit around it. Understanding it helps us learn about our place in space and how the objects in our cosmic neighborhood interact with each other.
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Research
23,371 papers- Origin of life-forming volatile elements in the inner Solar System.ReviewNature · 2022Broadley MW, Bekaert DV, Piani L et al.DOI: 10.1038/s41586-022-05276-x
- Unearthing terrestrial extreme microbiomes for searching terrestrial-like life in the Solar System.ReviewTrends in microbiology · 2022Coleine C, Delgado-Baquerizo MDOI: 10.1016/j.tim.2022.04.002
- The early solar system.ReviewOrigins of life and evolution of the biosphere : the journal of the International Society for the Study of the Origin of Life · 1997Gaffey MJ
- The Search for Chiral Asymmetry as a Potential Biosignature in our Solar System.ReviewChemical reviews · 2020Glavin DP, Burton AS, Elsila JE et al.
Article
The Solar System is the gravitationally bound system of the Sun and the masses that orbit it, most prominently its eight planets, of which Earth is one. The system formed about 4.6 billion years ago when a dense region of a molecular cloud collapsed, creating the Sun and a protoplanetary disc from which the orbiting bodies assembled.
The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the Solar System's total mass. Inside the Sun's core, hydrogen is fused into helium, releasing energy that is emitted through the Sun's photosphere. This creates the heliosphere and a decreasing temperature gradient across the Solar System.