In the early centuries of astronomy, however, our visions of the cosmos often took the shape of diagrams—representing what we believed about our solar system. What’s remarkable about Claudius ...

To try and get a mental grip on this sort of distance, we recommend having a scroll through designer and developer Josh Worth's map of the Solar System, which uses as its scale one pixel equals ...

At the time of Kepler the notion was that the Earth was the center of the solar system, and perhaps of the universe itself. Even the more accurate heliocentric models of the solar system that ...

To show what our solar system truly looks like, DIY enthusiasts Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh had to drive to a gigantic dry lakebed in Nevada and build a scale model there. With Earth being ...

Warning: For those wanna-be astronauts and space travelers out there, this interactive model of the solar system could prove ... Select "true" to view accurate size and distance or "schematic ...

This year, we got to know our Solar System a little better. For millennia, humans have believed the Earth or the Sun occupied the center of the Solar System, but the truth is the planets and the ...

As a result, the Earth is not currently orbiting a point inside the Sun, as the barycenter is outside of it. We are orbiting ...

Impact Link For many years, there were only two ways for astronomers to see distant worlds in our solar system: Either they ... of spacecraft to create accurate imagery. But the Hayden Planetarium ...

Astronomers have found a way to pinpoint our solar system's center of mass to within a mere 330 feet (100 meters), a recent study reports. Such precision — equivalent to the width of a human ...