DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

A scale model of the solar system, described as ”unique' by its creator, was unveiled in Stanley on Saturday afternoon by Miss Sukey Cameron, Falkland Islands Government Representative in London.

Hale-Bopp originated in the Oort Cloud, a theoretical shell of icy planetesimals surrounding the sun in the outer reaches of ...

This brings us to eROSITA, the Max Planck Institute of Extraterrestrial Physics' powerful space-based X-ray telescope. Led by ...

Known as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs), these celestial remnants provide crucial insights into the dynamic history of the ...

Need a new idea to keep kids entertained? Try stargazing. Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning ...

A 3D map of our cosmic neighborhood has revealed hot and cold regions as well as an "escape tunnel" from our local bubble.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

JERSEYVILLE - In an exciting display of creativity and scientific understanding, seventh grade science students at St.

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Overstreet said, "is to build one." First they had to determine how much space they needed. It ended up being 7 miles of empty space ...

US News and World Report recently named Aroostook’s Maine School of Science and Mathematics one of the best high schools in the country ...

We’re showing that, everywhere we look now, there was some sort of magnetic field that was responsible for bringing mass to ...