Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model.We originally tried to make something similar to this, but it was ...

Get your scrolling hand ready. An interactive web page has created a scale model of the solar system, where the moon is the size of just one pixel. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

Neptune, the solar system's most far flung planet, orbits the sun from about 4.498 billion kilometers away. At this scale, the model is more than 11 kilometers wide.

Lethbridge will soon feature Canada's largest scale model of the solar system. The Lethbridge Astronomy Society came up with the idea, and city council approved the project this week.

The world’s first scale model of the solar system is created in Nevada, and it covers 7 MILES of desert. Based on Earth being a marble, team calculated sizes of orbits and planets ...

The solar system is a big place. To show just how big, Sudbury’s Science North has opened a new outdoor exhibit it calls the Sudbury Solar System Path. It’s a scale model of the solar system ...

Scale model of Solar System shows Earth's place in the universe like never before. Only 24 people in history have seen the full circle of the Earth for themselves. Alice Harrold.

Our solar system is vast. But looking at artists’ depictions, you don’t quite get the feel of that. In order to illustrate just how large our small part of the galaxy is, two filmmakers ...

The Earth is frequently referred to as a big blue marble, so it's fitting that a couple of guys used an actual marble to represent the Earth in an amazing 7-mile-long (11-kilometer) full-scale ...

And Sweden built the largest scale model of the solar system ever, using the Stockholm Globe Arena to represent the sun, and lining up the planets at a 20 million to one scale. At this distance ...

A video of the huge (but shrunken) solar system has attracted more than 400,000 views since it was posted on the To Scale Series Facebook page.A companion video shows how the model was made, with ...