Astronomers have used all sorts of tricks over the years to try to convey the mind-boggling scale of the universe to us ordinary folks. If you could drive your car from here to the nearest star at 60 ...

From our small blue planet to the farthest reaches of the observable cosmos, this breathtaking journey explores the true ...

From subatomic particles to galaxies billions of light-years away, the scale of the universe is beyond mind-blowing—yet most of us can barely grasp it. This video breaks down the cosmic vastness step ...

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Looking up into the night sky, it can be difficult to comprehend the vastness of the space that surrounds the Earth – and the impressive size of the various stellar and planetary bodies on display.

Q: If the universe is expanding, does the space inside an atom expand, too? Since the space inside an atom is most of its volume, that means that matter would be expanding at the same rate. A: We’ve ...

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 ...

Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

Since at least 2016, a rumor has circulated online that "a speck of dust is halfway between the size of" an atom and Earth. However, Wendy Taylor, a particle physicist and professor of physics and ...

Cold atom experiments are among the most powerful and precise ways of investigating and measuring the Universe and exploring the quantum world. By trapping atoms and exploiting their quantum ...