The solar system is difficult to show correctly. Why? It is difficult because the size of things are vastly different. Let me use units common in solar-system astronomy, the Astronomical Unit (or AU).

A web developer named Alex Giron has created a working model of the solar system using only web standards. It's fully animated – though Alex takes advantage of some new CSS 3 features (border-radius, ...

Warning: For those wanna-be astronauts and space travelers out there, this interactive model of the solar system could prove to be highly addictive. With one click, you can visit Saturn, Venus, or the ...

The Sun-centered model of the solar system was first proposed more than a thousand years before Copernicus. What does our Solar System really look like? If we were to somehow fly ourselves above the ...

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. Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she ...

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 ...