How do you make a numerical model that shows the motion of the Earth-Sun-moon system? Here, I use vpython to create the calculation.

For their latest project, To Scale: Time, Overstreet and Gorosh decided to build a scale model of time. All 13.8 billion years of it. The 140 million miles between Earth and Mars became 302 feet.

Ever wonder how designers make models in 3D? Check out this free program from Google that lets you create, view and edit 3D plans quickly and easily.

And while creating a 3D model of the Laschamps excursion – the most recent time when the Earth’s poles wandered, 41,000 years ago – Mukhopadhyay, the study’s lead author, noticed something ...

The relative rotation of the Earth, moon, and sun is about 97 percent accurate in this working Lego orrery.

Destination Earth (DestinE) is a flagship initiative of the European Commission, aiming to develop a highly accurate digital model of the Earth -- a digital twin of our planet.