Uncover the true scale of our cosmic neighborhood, exploring the distances between the Sun, the planets, and the far reaches of the Solar System.We begin with a deep dive into the Earth's position ...

Get your scrolling hand ready. An interactive web page has created a scale model of the solar system, where the moon is the size of just one pixel.

Of course other models of the Solar System -- or bits of it -- do exist to scale. On the web there are several, perhaps most notably this illustration which represents the distances between the ...

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar system, the odds are good that it was wrong. Not that it messed up the order of the planets, but that the scale was completely off. "Every single ...

Use planetary orbits and scale ratios to draw scale solar system orbits while exploring gravitational forces.

Students could calculate the distances and sizes of the planets in the solar system based on the Sun being the size of a football.

Solar system distances to scale, showing the newly discovered planetoid, nicknamed "Farfarout," compared to other known solar system objects, including the previous record holder 2018 VG18 "Farout ...

Normally, what textbooks do is to show two separate scales. One scale showing the orbits of the planets and another scale showing the size of the planets. Unfortunately, this way you don't get a ...

Did you ever build one of those scale models of the solar system as a kid? You know, where you walk around a football field setting down balls of different sizes, attempting to gain some ...

Solar System distances to scale, showing the newly discovered 2018 AG37, nicknamed "Farfarout," compared to other known Solar System objects, including the previous record holder 2018 VG18 "Farout ...

An illustration of the scale of our solar system. Distances here are measured in astronomical units (AU). (Credit: NASA) Click on an article about space on Discover, and you’ll likely run into a ...