"If our solar system is indeed moving this fast, we need to question fundamental assumptions about the large-scale structure ...

Recent astronomical observations have thrown a curveball at our understanding of the cosmos. The solar system, it seems, is ...

Study from Bielefeld finds major departure from the standard model. How fast and in what direction is our solar system moving through space? This question, though simple in appearance, plays a central ...

The John J. McCarthy Observatory in New Milford will unveil its scale model of the solar system Nov. 14. Following a brief ceremony at the Route 7 South observatory, behind the high school, the ...

“Our analysis shows that the solar system is moving more than three times faster than current models predict,” Böhme ...

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Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

Remember those textbook diagrams of the solar system or the foam planets that hung in a tidy row from the ceiling of your grade school classroom? All lies. A sprawling new installation at the ...