Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...

Black holes are big. But just how big are they compared to something like our Sun? That's what NASA's latest animation aims to answer. The new black hole animation showcases some of the universe's ...

Mapping the Universe’s vast structure no longer requires endless supercomputer time. Effort.jl brings cosmic modeling to laptops without sacrificing accuracy.

Astronomers have long relied on supercomputers to simulate the immense structure of the Universe, but a new tool called ...

NASA has just released a new animation showcasing the mind-boggling scale of supermassive black holes. These cosmic monsters are known to be lurking at the centers of many large galaxies, including ...

In the 1960s, the United States and the then-Soviet Union were engaged in an all-out race for the Moon. The contest for supremacy in space was documented in the documentary The Space Race, streaming ...

I’m getting email and tweets about a Flash-based interactive tool where you can zoom in and out on the Universe, getting a scale of things from the tiniest fluctuations in the quantum foam of space to ...

( Nanowerk News) If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the Universe: it’s just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number of other tiny dots, forms clusters that aggregate into ...

[Update: I’m getting notes from people saying that the site linked below has some NSFW content on it. I didn’t see that when I posted this; the link itself is rated G and quite safe, but be warned if ...

Carl Sagan told us that there are more stars in the universe than there are grains of sand on all of the Earth's beaches. At the same time, there are more H 2 O molecules in just 10 drops of water ...