Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...

JONESBORO, Ark. (KAIT/Edited News Release) - Just in time for the total solar eclipse next April, Arkansas State University is announcing the installation of the Voyage Model Solar System on the ...

Westfield High School senior Kaitlynn Goulette and freshman Krystyna Goulette have developed a walkable, scale model of the solar system as a permanent installation on the Columbia Greenway Rail Trail ...

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Which solar system model is best? For as long as humans could look up at the night sky, we’ve been fascinated with the stars. How far away are they? Where did they come from? What secrets do they hide ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure of the universe." Astronomers have discovered that the solar system may be ...