Given the vast distances involved, it’s impossible to create a scale map of the solar system and the immediate interstellar regions beyond it. To overcome this problem, NASA has prepared a map ...

The citizens of Cumberland, Indiana are about to join more than 20 communities around the United States that sport a scale model of the solar system in their back yards (see our interactive map).

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 ...

From the baffling true scale of our solar system to the unbearable vastness of the universe, this incredible interactive map reveals the true size of the cosmos.

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To show what our solar system truly looks like, DIY enthusiasts Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh had to drive to a gigantic dry lakebed in Nevada and build a scale model there.

These guys put Earth in its place. Space enthusiasts Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh say they built the first-ever to-scale model of the solar system — on a 7-mile stretch of dry Nevada lakebed ...

An astronomer has posted an awesome animation that has put into perspective the true scale of planets within our solar system.

What does the Solar System look like when it's shown exactly to scale? Thanks to this awesome video, you can now find out. "To create a scale model with an Earth only as big as [a] marble you need ...

Use planetary orbits and scale ratios to draw scale solar system orbits while exploring gravitational forces.

Water map graphic by Stephanie Fox. There’s only one body in the solar system where we have indisputable evidence that there’s liquid water on the surface – that, of course, would be Earth ...