DALLASI absolutely love this, it's called an orrery, and it's a little mechanical model of our solar system. You can see the planets here, orbiting the sun as they would do in real life.

An Egyptian astronomer called Ptolemy (AD100-168) described one of the earliest ideas for how the Solar System is structured. Ptolemy’s model and many earlier ideas of the Solar System had the ...

Ever since Isaac Newton famously talked about gravity, its dominance as a force in our solar system has been well known. It's responsible for the orbits of the planets and their satellites ...

In the future, it might be able to differ between panels of PV and solar thermal systems. Swedish scientists have created a new automated model that they claim offers “superior performance” in ...

Electrical efficiency Image: University of Manchester, Solar Energy, CC BY 4.0 Scientists created a numerical model to describe the system, incorporating heat convection, conduction, radiation ...

Floating solar ... breakthrough system by researchers at Jiangsu University of Science and Technology particularly exciting for the tech's future development. The research team's model was ...