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 the same scale of 1 to 10 billion. That is, the real ...

Measured in cross-country flights, the distance to the edge of the solar system is great indeed. LAX and JFK airports are 2,475 miles (3,983 km) apart, so the Voyager probes have experienced the ...

This chart shows how far away Farfarout is when compared to other Solar System objects and is measured ... discovered back in 2018 but its exact distance hadn't been determined until recently.

The heliosphere ends at the heliopause, the distance at which the solar wind is buffeted completely by particles from outside our solar system. Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 crossed the termination ...

Astronomers have found the most distant object ever observed in the Solar System. The lump of rock is 15.5bn km from the Sun, three times further away than Pluto. Known as V774104, the object is ...

A new virtual reality app lets users explore the solar system up close, from scorching-hot Mercury to faraway Pluto and beyond. The app, called Star Chart for VR, is billed as the first virtual ...

Explore the planets, visit the moon, and gaze at the stars in this 3-D interactive model of the solar system. Editor's Note: The size of the planets, moon, and stars as well as the distance ...

An artist's illustration imagines the newly discovered Farfarout (lower right), now confirmed to be the most distant object ever observed in our solar system. Farfarout is 132 times the distance ...

If you’ve ever seen an illustration of the solar system, the odds are good that ... you would see a series of concentric circles – the distances between them would render everything in our ...