So Overstreet and his partner, Alex Gorosh, decided to build a model that would accurately represent what the solar system actually looks like.

When you think about it, just about every single photo that you find on the Internet that depicts our solar system fails to do so accurately and to scale. That’s why a group of friends have worked ...

Filmmakers came up with a seven-mile long scale model of the Solar System in the Nevada desert and filmed their work in a documentary titled "To Scale: The Solar System." ...

A group of friends have built the first scale model of our solar system in the expanse of the vast Nevada desert.

The only way to see a scale model of the solar system is to build one." To build a scale model with an Earth the size of a marble, the group of friends needed 7 miles of open space.

In just 36 hours, two filmmakers built the solar system to scale in the Nevada desert.

In To Scale: The Solar System, the filmmakers seek to make a model of the solar system that gets the orbits and the size of the planets perfectly to scale.

To do this the two went out to a dry lake in Nevada and created a scale model of the solar system with a single astronomical unit equaling 176 meters. An astronomical unit (AU) is the distance ...

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

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.

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...