"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

I’m a volunteer at the Rancho Mirage Observatory and one thing I’ve learned is that space is big. It’s hard to grasp just how big it is. For example, the sun is 865,000 miles in diameter and the solar ...

For many, space travel is unrealistic – spaceships are expensive, and interplanetary exploration doesn’t fit in with a 9-to-5 ...

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 ...

Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...