DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

Beyond Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt, a vast expanse of icy bodies that may hold clues to the solar system’s formation. These ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

The formation of our solar system from a singular nebula raises an intriguing question: why did each planet develop with a ...

The S-Curve model, developed by Australian solar ... with the lower energy needed with electrification you get a solar-dominated system within just 10 years.” “Birchy,” as he calls himself ...

She mapped our solar system's "alternate fate" had it housed an extra planet between Mars and Jupiter instead of the existing asteroid belt. They developed a 3D model that simulates how the solar ...

Planetary scale model trails are letting cycling enthusiasts pedal their way through the cosmos. These trails are designed ...

Using computer models of the four outer planets ... Although most simulations created conditions very unlike the current solar system, the researchers found that in approximately 1% of the ...