Wanderers CU is a responsive sound experience delivered via a mobile app that responds to the visitor’s movement as sensed by GPS. A complement to the Colorado Scale Model Solar System represented by ...

To do it they had to go to a dry lakebed in Nevada, and first build a model of the inner planets to a scale of 1 astronomical unit (AU, or distance from the Sun to Earth) of 176 metres.

The Earth is frequently referred to as a big blue marble, so it's fitting that a couple of guys used an actual marble to represent the Earth in an amazing 7-mile-long (11-kilometer) full-scale ...

The model solar system, which has delighted campus visitors since 1987, squishes space down by about 10 billion times. Earth, which has a diameter of 7,917 miles, is now roughly the size of a pepper ...

That brings the total in-situ edge-of-solar-system data points to, well, two. Fortunately, other missions provide helpful clues that allow scientists to create a rough outline of our bubble-like home.

In 2009, a pair of astronomers at the Paris Observatory announced a startling discovery. After building a detailed computational model of our solar system, they ran thousands of numerical simulations, ...

Following the theory of heliocentrism, today we know that Earth, and the other planets of the solar system, are all in orbit around the sun. However, it was once believed that Earth was at the ...