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 ...

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate ...

While there is a lot of industry investment in space tourism these days, we’re still a long way from the technology leaps (think warp speed and hyperdrives) required for interplanetary travel. But the ...

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

The team, led by astrophysicist Lukas Böhme at Bielefeld University, found that the universe is, in fact, moving more than ...

Lake Charles, La. (KPLC) - Visitors to the 1st Avenue Walking Trail in Lake Charles can now enjoy a self-guided tour of the solar system. The Voyage Mark II exhibit is a 10-billion-to-one scale model ...

NORTH JUDSON, Ind. (WNDU) - Explore space without leaving Starke County. The Constellation of Starke Creatives Network and Prairie Trails Club welcomed the public to the unveiling of the ‘Our Solar ...

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Artist Oliver Jeffers has unveiled the latest iteration of his massive sculpture, Our Place in Space, a six-mile facsimile of the solar system that stresses just how small we really are. The work, on ...

How fast and in which direction is our solar system moving through the universe? This seemingly simple question is one of the ...

For the first time since 2008, two new planets are being added to one of northern Maine's most famous — and scientifically accurate — roadside attractions. Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the ...