DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

A new model has been developed to simulate interstellar activity within our solar system and the nearby Alpha Centauri system ...

New research has revealed that the cosmological model developed by Nicolaus Copernicus, the renowned European Renaissance ...

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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 ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The ongoing search for oceans in our solar system is taking us to Uranus. A new computer model, designed by researchers at the University of Texas, could help a future NASA ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish ...

The Oort cloud — the mysterious shell of icy objects at the edge of the solar system — might sport a pair of spiral arms that ...