In this solar system, Jupiter is about the size of a miniature watermelon. The sun is a small weather balloon. And the orbits, traced onto a dry lakebed, are huge.

Normally, what textbooks do is to show two separate scales. One scale showing the orbits of the planets and another scale showing the size of the planets. Unfortunately, this way you don't get a ...

Have you ever wanted to travel to Neptune? Thanks to an updated solar system model on campus, you can “visit” the planet as you stroll from the Fiske Planetarium north to Colorado Avenue—just a few ...

A new educational attraction in Swartz Creek is offering families a chance to explore the solar system without leaving the ...

Launched in 2000, the solar system project began with students and community members building scaled models of the planets at a scale of 93 million to one, and over the years, the project has ...

As Pluto is finally added to the University of Arizona's scale model solar system, a new study suggests how the dwarf planet's cold heart was originally broken.

The Solar System’s current planetary orbits seem stable, but that’s only because the planets have settled into them over billions of years. The early Solar System was a much different place than that ...

A NASA-funded team has created a new model that explains the scarcity of planets with masses between super-Earths and mini-Neptunes. The new model aims to explain two puzzling observations that ...

There are quirks at the far edge of our solar system, in the form of disturbed objects in the Kuiper belt. One explanation: Planet Nine.