In this curious film, a pair of friends venture out into the desert to build an accurate to scale model of our solar system.

Have you ever wondered just how big space really is? It’s huge. In fact, it’s astronomical! The Colorado Scale Model Solar System depicts the Sun, the planets, and the distances between them all on ...

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 ...

New simulations suggest that Mercury's formation could be the result of a rare collision between two celestial bodies of ...

The main working hypothesis for the Mercury problem says that the planet is the victim of a collision with a different-sized object. The cataclysmic collision stripped much of the planet's mantle and ...

It’s always fun when an afternoon hike shows you the insignificance of our tiny planet. That happened recently when I journeyed to Heiligenmoschel, Germany, for a planet walk, a special type of ...

A mysterious object from beyond our solar system, 3I/ATLAS, has recently captured the attention of astronomers once again.