Welcome to SolarBalls, an animated series that combines entertaining visuals with educational content about the solar system ...

Planetary scientist James O'Donoghue created an animation that shows our solar system's planets rotating in a single globe The globe shows slices of the best parts of each planet The animation ...

Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester.View full profile Jack has a degree in Medical Genetics from the University of Leicester. Everyone knows that as mere ...

Nicolaus Copernicus Animated Google Doodle Models Heliocentric Solar System A Google Doodle today celebrates Nicolaus Copernicus, the Renaissance astronomer who pushed forward the (at the time) ...

It's hard to understand just how truly big something is without seeing it, or at least having something to compare it to. Understanding how large objects can be in space is a common problem for some ...

Shane Gehlert used a combination of NASA models and digital animation to create I Need Some Space, a brief educational tour of the planets, moons, and spacecraft spinning through our solar system. The ...

"The only way to see a scale model of the solar system," Wylie Overstreet says, "is to build one." So he and a group of friends did just that, tracing out the planets' orbits and then filming a ...

Earth is not alone, and a stunning new animation created using NASA data beautifully illustrates that point. There may be trillions of other planets in our galaxy, the Milky Way (which itself is one ...