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

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 ...

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 ...

( 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 ...

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 ...

[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 ...

The European Extremely Large Telescope is aptly named. The E-ELT will be the largest optical telescope on the Earth when it is completed in 2024. How big is big? A newly released concept animation ...

If extraterrestrial life is anything like what we see on Earth, then chances are it's living on Earth-like planets thousands, or even millions, of light years from our solar system. Today, astronomers ...