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 ...

Further simulations on flybys into the inner Solar System revealed one of our own planets might be flung out of the ballpark ...

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 ...

Electrical efficiency Image: University of Manchester, Solar Energy, CC BY 4.0 Scientists created a numerical model to describe the system, incorporating heat convection, conduction, radiation ...

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