A new educational attraction in Swartz Creek is offering families a chance to explore the solar system without leaving the ...

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 ...

A solar system model is the most effective way to accurately plot the relation of all the celestial objects on a much smaller scale.

Voyage, a $50,000 scale model walkway through the solar system, is coming to Albany Street in Broken Arrow.

Where does the Earth really fit in space? That question and the inaccurate approaches to illustrating that led a group of friends to the Nevada desert to build a scale model of the solar system. Th… ...

A Walk Through the Solar System Scale models of the planets are popping up in cities and parks all over the country.

These guys put Earth in its place. Space enthusiasts Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh say they built the first-ever to-scale model of the solar system — on a 7-mile stretch of dry Nevada lakebed ...

To show what our solar system truly looks like, DIY enthusiasts Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh had to drive to a gigantic dry lakebed in Nevada and build a scale model there.

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar system, the odds are good that it was wrong. Not that it messed up the order of the planets, but that the scale was completely off. "Every single ...

Those proportions are kept honest in the scale model, in which an Earth that's only the size of a small marble calls for a solar system that's 7 miles wide.