Space has a knack for bending our sense of scale. The Moon feels close enough to touch—after all, we see its craters with ...

TIMHi, I'm Tim Peake. I'm an astronaut based here at the European Space Agency in Germany, and from December 2015, to June 2016, I spent six months orbiting Earth on the International Space Station.

Westfield High School senior Kaitlynn Goulette and freshman Krystyna Goulette have developed a walkable, scale model of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Discover how astronomical units measurement can be standardized and simplified to improve understanding in astronomy. An illustration of the scale of our solar system. Distances here are measured in ...

Explore the vastness of the Solar System in this video, which accurately showcases the relative sizes of the planets and ...