A new project by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh sought to explain just how vast our local neighbourhood of planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets really is, by building the first scale ...

A team of LA filmmakers has created the world's first scale model of the solar system in the Black Rock desert. With the Earth the size of a marble, the model stretches out for seven miles on a ...

Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger.

Remember that Solar System school project you may have built when you were a kid? Remember how crammed together the planets orbiting the sun were? … ...

You can now explore 3D models of planets, moons and spacecraft from your phone thanks to a new partnership between NASA and Google.

Scale Model of the Solar System 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.

A new set of informational displays is now in the works. Parker King, the concept designer for the Cumberland model, says the Eugene solar system was his inspiration for the project.

I’m at a loss for words. This project and accompanying short film, To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, is so incredibly awe-inspiring and so beautifully executed ...

What might seem to be a fairly straightforward project actually involved multiple steps to create the model at a ratio of 1 astronomical unit to 176 meters.

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...