Eons ago, in the frigid depths of our solar system, a dramatic ... The existing model neglects the importance of this ...

After passing Pluto, the craft will continue into the farthest reaches of the solar system. Scientists suspect there may be yet more moons around Pluto, some perhaps sharing or swapping orbits and ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish territory. It was created by astronomers Nils Brenning and Gösta Gahm to help ...

According to the Nice model (named for the French town ... The first clue came from Pluto. The oddball of the solar system, it dips far above and below the pancake-like plane in which the eight ...

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says, "Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system." As the craft ...

A new model that incorporates data gathered by the JWST could help scientists understand the composition and mass of objects in the distant Kuiper Belt and beyond.

I first spot the Maine Solar System Model through the car windshield ... would call for a 300-foot-diameter Sun, not to mention a Pluto about 240 miles away. Travelers wishing to explore the ...

FLAGSTAFF, Az. – Whether Pluto is officially a planet is the least interesting thing about the runt of the solar system, astronomers will tell you 95 years after the discovery of the fascinating ...

Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas ... Since its discovery in 1930, until 2006, Pluto was counted as the ninth planet in the solar system. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union ...

DALLASOver there by the dome is poor old Pluto, everybody's favourite ... Dallas shows an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar system. Before the 17th century most people believed in a ...