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 ...

Pluto has been added to the University of Arizona’s scale-model walking tour of the solar system, but will that be enough to mend the dwarf planet’s broken heart? Not likely, according to a recent ...

When scaled accurately, the distances in our solar system are so vast that planets appear incredibly far apart. Voyager 1, our farthest probe, will take 73,000 years to reach the nearest star. Cracker ...