There’s something about comparing the size of objects—say, moons or sci-fi starships—that is endlessly appealing. But while comparisons we’ve seen cover subsets of stuffs, none have looked at the big ...

Some 13.8bn years ago, the universe came into existence in the Big Bang. Its first moments were a period of pure energy with intense, possibly infinite, heat and density. As the universe expanded, it ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Universe Size Comparison VR How does an atom look like compared to a planet? How big is the Milky Way compared to other galaxies? In this simple application ...

Anybody who spends time thinking about the cosmos knows what it’s like to have a brain full of black holes (in a good way). But while Sagan-ian daydreaming about the massive regions of spacetime ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

A gamma-ray burst detected by NASA's Swift satellite in April 2009 has been newly unveiled as a candidate for the most distant object in the universe. At an estimated distance of 13.14 billion light ...

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the largest digital camera ever made. High atop Chile’s 2,700-meter Cerro ...