I first spot the Maine Solar System Model through the car windshield ... would call for a 300-foot-diameter Sun, not to mention a Pluto about 240 miles away. Travelers wishing to explore the ...

According to the Nice model (named for the French town ... The first clue came from Pluto. The oddball of the solar system, it dips far above and below the pancake-like plane in which the eight ...

Eons ago, in the frigid depths of our solar system, a dramatic ... The existing model neglects the importance of this ...

The relative quantities of volatile gases like methane and ethane can reveal key details about distant Kuiper Belt objects.

DALLASOver there by the dome is poor old Pluto, everybody's favourite ... Dallas shows an orrery – a mechanical model of the solar system. Before the 17th century most people believed in a ...

The Sweden Solar System is the largest scale model of the Solar System in existence, and it spans the entire Swedish ...

New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern says, "Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we've seen in the solar system." As the craft ...

After passing Pluto, the craft will continue into the farthest reaches of the solar system. Scientists suspect there may be yet more moons around Pluto, some perhaps sharing or swapping orbits and ...

Almost 10 years ago, a NASA spacecraft was able to take several photos of Pluto, known for decades as a planet before it was ...

Pluto isn’t the only dwarf planet in our solar system's outer reaches. Now is an ideal time to look for the egg-shaped Haumea, says Abigail Beall ...

The solar system is also home to many other cosmic bodies including asteroids, moons and dwarf planets such as Pluto. What's this ... known as the heliocentric model. It was controversial as ...