To truly understand our place in the universe, we must first comprehend the concept of scale. It is only through understanding the relative sizes of the entities around us that we can appreciate the ...

“Space is big,” said Douglas Adams. “You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-boggingly big it is.” But why must this be so? And why does our Universe exhibit such tremendous scale, from the ...

Trying to imagine the smallest things in our universe is rather difficult. Quarks, cosmic strings, neutrinos. The sale of the truly tiny is simply beyond our realm of comprehension. Similarly, it’s ...

The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge ...

This great tool was developed back in 2010 -- I'm not sure how I missed it, or why none of us on GeekDad have written about it before. The Scale of the Universe is an interactive infographic that ...

The Scale of the Universe 2 is a brilliant application that provides a captivating, highly educational visualization of the scale of our universe, from the still-theoretical quantum foam (1 x 10-35 ...

An international team led by astronomers from Kyoto University in Japan, the University of Tokyo, and the University of Oxford in England has released its first version of a 3-D map of the universe ...

Astronomers have recorded the most luminous flare ever emitted by a black hole—an event so extreme it briefly outshone the ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, astronomers have identified the largest water reservoir in the universe, a cosmic body ...