Picture the solar system. I'm guessing the image in your head is similar to what you might see in an astronomy text with colorful spheres of different sizes set on a series of nested circles orbiting ...

Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...

TROY, N.Y. — Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) recently installed a permanent Voyage Mark II Model Solar System exhibit on campus as a STEM education tool available to students, educators, and ...

Pouring rain didn't dampen the spirits Saturday of about 100 people who gathered to witness the unveiling of a scale-model solar system at the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford. The centerpiece is ...

The first element in a scale model solar system was placed Saturday at the McCarthy Observatory on the New Milford High School campus. The sun, measuring six feet in diameter, topping over 11 feet off ...