Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...

"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

These days, we are treated to glorious images of the cosmos through astrophotography and sophisticated three-dimensional visualizations of the universe. In the early centuries of astronomy, however, ...

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 ...

In 2009, a pair of astronomers at the Paris Observatory announced a startling discovery. After building a detailed computational model of our solar system, they ran thousands of numerical simulations, ...

In To Scale: The Solar System, the filmmakers seek to make a model of the solar system that gets the orbits and the size of the planets perfectly to scale. With Earth the size of a marble, they need ...

Starting with an Earth the size of a marble, these folks built a full-scale model of our solar system across 7 miles of Nevada desert. Anthony Domanico CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate ...

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Wylie Overstreet says, "is to build one." So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets' orbits and then filming a ...