Picture the solar system. I'm guessing the image in your head is similar to what you might see in an astronomy text with colorful spheres of different sizes set on a series of nested circles orbiting ...

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 ...

This story is part of Short Wave's series Space Camp about all the weird, wonderful things happening in the universe. Check out the rest of the series. If you were born in the last century you might ...

For the first time, scientists have used satellite data to create a 3D map of the sun's interior magnetic field, the fundamental driver of solar activity. The research, published in The Astrophysical ...

A village in Kent is home to what is thought to be the world's largest scale model of the solar system and beyond, created to help people understand the enormity of space. The model is spread across ...

Understanding how the Sun and its activity impact Earth and the solar system is important because solar storms affect the technology we use on Earth and in space. Now, a team of heliophysicists and ...