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

A 3D model of the solar neighborhood, within the Local Hot Bubble Scientists have discovered a "cosmic tunnel" near our solar ...

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.

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

"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 ...

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 ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast region of icy bodies that holds the secrets to the solar system’s formation.

Scientists mapping the bubble our solar system finds itself in made a new discovery, there is an “interstellar tunnel” that ...

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

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

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 ...

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