Rice University physicists have gone to extremes to prove that Isaac Newton's classical laws of motion can apply in the atomic world: They've built an accurate model of part of the solar system inside ...

Researchers from ETH Zürich have announced they have been able to date events in the early solar system with greater precision than ever before possible using an extinct atom called niobium-92.

Using the extinct niobium-92 atom, ETH researchers have been able to date events in the early solar system with greater precision than before. ... The research team’s new model suggests that the inner ...

Of course other models of the Solar System -- or bits of it -- do exist to scale. On the web there are several, perhaps most notably this illustration which represents the distances between the ...

A video of the huge (but shrunken) solar system has attracted more than 400,000 views since it was posted on the To Scale Series Facebook page.A companion video shows how the model was made, with ...

How to Build a Seven-Mile-Wide Scale Model of the Solar System It takes three-and-a-half miles to get from the Sun to Pluto. Danny Lewis. September 21, 2015. Get our newsletter!