Dwarf planets Haumea and Makemake are the latest additions to the Maine Solar System Model, billed as the largest solar system model in the western hemisphere.

Pouring rain didn't dampen the spirits Saturday of about 100 people who gathered to witness the unveiling of a scale-model solar system at the McCarthy Observatory in New Milford. The centerpiece ...

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

For astrobiologists, the search for life beyond our solar system could be likened to where one would look in a vast ...

AROOSTOOK COUNTY, Maine (WAGM) - Aroostook County’s iconic Maine Solar System Model is about to get even bigger. Two new dwarf planet models are being added to the roadside attraction that has ...

Scientists’ model indicates that dark matter inside gas giants could collapse into black holes detectable by observation.

Our sun is about five times less magnetically active than other sunlike stars—effectively a special case. The reason for this ...

Why do the solar system’s planets have different compositions? While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

In the remote outer reaches of planetary systems, far beyond the orbit of known planets, enormous and mysterious worlds silently loop around their stars. Some drift as far as 10,000 times the ...