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 ...

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 ...

Banner image: A glass block marks Saturn's spot in the solar system in a new scale model on the CU Boulder campus. (Credit: CU Boulder) Have you ever wanted to travel to Neptune? Thanks to an updated ...

While there is a lot of industry investment in space tourism these days, we’re still a long way from the technology leaps (think warp speed and hyperdrives) required for interplanetary travel. But the ...

Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...

A scale model of the solar system, with each planet depicted in relief on individual square granite markers installed atop concrete bases embedded in the ground. Each planet bears a laser etched ...