An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

The Sun-centered model of the solar system was first proposed more than a thousand years before Copernicus. What does our Solar System really look like? If we were to somehow fly ourselves above ...

The order of the solar system with regards to the geocentric model, according to Penn State University is Earth (stationary and at the center), moon, Mercury, Venus, sun, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

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 ...

A video of the huge (but shrunken) solar system has attracted more than 400,000 views since it was posted on the To Scale Series Facebook page.A companion video shows how the model was made, with ...

September 17, 2015 VIDEO: Solar system model built to scale in Nevada desert Video clears up misconceptions about vast orbits ...

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 ...

NASA's New Horizons mission has sparked a renewed interest in all things space. It also likely inspired a couple of filmmakers to dispel a common myth and build a scale model of our solar system ...