For many, space travel is unrealistic – spaceships are expensive, and interplanetary exploration doesn’t fit in with a 9-to-5 ...

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 ...

Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...

TROY, N.Y. — Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) recently installed a permanent Voyage Mark II Model Solar System exhibit on campus as a STEM education tool available to students, educators, and ...

Picture the solar system. I'm guessing the image in your head is similar to what you might see in an astronomy text with colorful spheres of different sizes set on a series of nested circles orbiting ...

Pouring rain didn't dampen the spirits Saturday of about 100 people who gathered to witness the unveiling of a scale-model solar system at the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford. The centerpiece is ...

The solar system exhibit is designed to serve as an educational tool for UA students and campus visitors alike. As part of the project, Brown is drafting lab exercises to help undergraduates ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14. Following a brief ceremony at the Route 7 South observatory, behind the high school, the ...