"This is a big step in understanding the outer solar system," team leader Rosemary Pike from the Center for Astrophysics | ...

A video of the huge (but shrunken) solar system has attracted more than 400,000 views since it was posted on the To Scale Series Facebook page.A companion video shows how the model was made, with ...

In their fantastic model, the Earth is only the size of a small marble. Even then, seven miles of open space was needed to show the entire solar system from the Sun to Neptune (sorry, Pluto).

The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on the same scale of 1 to 10 billion. That is, the real objects and distances are 10 billion ...

The solar system is full of mysteries that continue to baffle even the brightest minds in astronomy. From unusual planetary orbits to strange cosmic phenomena, our understanding of how the solar ...

Neptune, the solar system's most far flung planet, orbits the sun from about 4.498 billion kilometers away. At this scale, the model is more than 11 kilometers wide.

A group of friends discovered there were no proportional models of the solar system with complete planetary orbits—most portray the planets and moons as too close together. So, they decided to ...

Moreover, as the planets orbit in the plane of the solar system, they change their direction-of-motion continuously, with Earth returning to its starting point after 365 days. Well, almost to its ...

Solar Walk serves up a visually impressive 3D model of our solar system. Set against a haunting, Already a roaring success on iOS and Mac, software developers Vito Technology has brought its ...

Every planet in the solar system is affected by multiple forces. The gravity of the Sun pulls planets toward the center of the solar system. The inertia from the creation of the planets sent them ...

As a 1 to 10-billion scale model of the solar system, all dimensions depicted – including the diameters of the Sun, planets and moons, and the distances between worlds – are one 10-billionth ...