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

"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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Our solar system resides in a unique low-density bubble called the Local Hot Bubble (LHB). Stretching at least 1,000 ...

THIS IS THE OTHER EDGE OF THE SUN, IS THE FORCE BEHIND AROOSTOOK SCALE MODEL OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM. THE LARGEST 3D MODEL IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE, STRETCHING 40 MILES ALONG ROUTE ONE FROM PLUTO IN ...

The Sun's corona, its outermost layer, is much hotter than its surface—a strange phenomenon that, despite years of research and observations, we still don't fully understand. The Sun's surface ...

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

A cash purchase is the most straightforward payment option. You pay for your solar system up-front, eliminating interest rates, loan fees or credit score checks. Considering solar panels last 25 ...