Aroostook County, Maine, is home to the largest 3D model of the solar system in the Western Hemisphere US News and World Report recently named Aroostook’s Maine School of Science and Mathematics one ...

Ever wish you could visit other planets in our solar system without launching on a deep-space mission? Now you can embark on an interplanetary adventure right from the palm of your hand, thanks to ...

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 ...

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A distant gas giant the size of 10 Jupiters is now the first planet outside Earth's solar system to be mapped in three ...

Communication systems are an integral part of daily life, but the sun can disrupt them by triggering powerful geomagnetic storms. To forecast these disturbances — which could affect GPS systems, air ...

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 ...

An international team of astronomers has shown for the first time that it is possible to map exoplanets using a technique ...