Why isn't Earth attracted towards the sun?

[Pradeepkumar]

We all know that gravitational force is an attractive force.

In that case Earth should have been attracted towards the sun,isn't.Instead it revolves round the sun in a specific orbit.Why??

[Klaynos]

The earth is attracted towards the sun.

 

The earth is continually falling towards the sun, but it keeps missing or orbiting...

 

That's because the earth has a tangential velocity from the sun so ass the sun accelerates the earth towards it this just has the effect of curving the path of the earth....

[Pradeepkumar]

Thank you very much . i was struggling to understand this fact for a long time.now you cleared my doubt.