Remember that Solar System school project you may have built when you were a kid? Remember how crammed together the planets orbiting the sun were? Well, you couldn’t have made it any other way ...

A new project by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh sought to explain just how vast our local neighbourhood of planets, dwarf planets, asteroids and comets really is, by building the first scale ...

A new set of informational displays is now in the works. Parker King, the concept designer for the Cumberland model, says the Eugene solar system was his inspiration for the project.

I’m at a loss for words. This project and accompanying short film, To Scale: The Solar System by Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh, is so incredibly awe-inspiring and so beautifully executed ...

Real world solar system models can be found in lots of places, the one that inspired us was the Maine solar system model. We originally tried to make something similar to this, but it was ...

While most Ohio State students won’t have the chance to travel through space, a new collaboration with artists and scientists brought small-scale space exploration to campus. A to-scale, 1-mile ...

A 3D Augmented Reality model of Saturn (Credit: Google, NASA) The new partnership has also seen the ‘Our Solar System’ project added to Google Arts & Culture.

Those proportions are kept honest in the scale model, in which an Earth that's only the size of a small marble calls for a solar system that's 7 miles wide.

Still from "To Scale: The Solar System," a 7-minute video that shows the construction of a scale-model solar system in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. (Image credit: Wylie Overstreet and Alex Gorosh) ...

What might seem to be a fairly straightforward project actually involved multiple steps to create the model at a ratio of 1 astronomical unit to 176 meters.

Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger.