DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

And it very nearly did not happen. That's the story I want to tell here.

Need a new idea to keep kids entertained? Try stargazing. Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning activities and videos about the solar system Free learning ...

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Overstreet said, "is to build one." First they had to determine how much space they needed. It ended up being 7 miles of empty space ...

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which successfully returned a sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2023, has provided ...

The Malalison Island Solar Photovoltaic Hybrid Project, assessed by the Asian Development Bank, has revolutionized the remote ...

"If there are lots of black holes out there, some of them must surely pass through our backyard every now and then." ...

Billions of years ago, a star may have passed incredibly close to our Solar System, triggering a series of cosmic events that ...

A mind-bending hypothesis is gaining traction among scientists: The universe may be teeming with microscopic black holes the size of an atom, but with the mass of a city-sized asteroid. Created ...

As you’re budgeting for a solar panel system, you may come across three types of solar panels. Each one can come with its own price tag, so consider the following price differences before you ...

The cost of cheap solar panels can range from $2.40 to $3.74 per watt. Factors such as equipment quality and system size can affect the price of solar panels. Faith is a writer whose work has been ...