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 ...

Across the galaxy, astronomers now see that planetary systems fall into four broad classes, and our own solar system, part of the rare Ordered group, is only one of them. At the same time, discoveries ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...