These days, we are treated to glorious images of the cosmos through astrophotography and sophisticated three-dimensional visualizations of the universe. In the early centuries of astronomy, however, ...

Very often when we think about space, we consider the vastness of the universe or the Milkyway, skipping over the magnitude of our own solar system. Even as our planetary knowledge makes it seem ...

In To Scale: The Solar System, the filmmakers seek to make a model of the solar system that gets the orbits and the size of the planets perfectly to scale. With Earth the size of a marble, they need ...

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 ...

"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 ...