In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...

Explore the true scale of the Solar System in this video, which illustrates the relative sizes of the planets and their distances from the Sun.

When scaled accurately, the distances in our solar system are so vast that planets appear incredibly far apart. Voyager 1, our farthest probe, will take 73,000 years to reach the nearest star. Cracker ...

NASA's Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy objects that surrounds our solar system. For a long time, the Oort cloud's ...

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...

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The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, is now 60 times farther from the sun than Earth. Credit: NASA / JHUAPL / SwRI illustration Zooming through the outer reaches of the solar system, A NASA ...

Science is a story of coming up with theories then doing our best to disprove them. That is especially true for theories on a ...