Putting the Sun at the centre Nicolas Copernicus (1473-1543) is generally credited with changing the model of the Solar System to one with the Sun at the centre.

How did Earth, alone among the solar system's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Despite what you may have heard or learned in school, the sun is NOT the center of the solar system.

How did Earth, alone among the Solar System's rocky planets, become the home for life? How, among all this frigid ...

Scale Model Solar System Scale Model 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 ...

Solar System: Strange Worlds Season 51 Episode 10 | 53m 34s | AD CC From a dwarf planet that looks like a deflated football, to a tiny moon with cliffs taller than Mt. Everest, to the spectacular ...

Pouring rain didn't dampen the spirits Saturday of about 100 people who gathered to witness the unveiling of a scale-model solar system at the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford. The centerpiece ...

Gravity, inertia, and centripetal force keep our solar system in motion. Explore with a series of kid-friendly gravity and force experiments.

A marker outside Creekwood Elementary School in Broken Arrow denotes where the asteroid belt would be in a 1-to-10 billion scale model of the solar system. Organizers and municipal leaders ...

After a decade-long search, some scientists say a growing number of clues point to the existence of a hidden planet in the Kuiper Belt beyond Neptune — and they may soon have the opportunity to ...