space

The New Horizons spacecraft launched on January 19, 2006 and is set to…

The “speed of light” typically means “really fast” but when it’s relative to…

Asterank is an asteroid database maintained by Ian Webster, an engineer at Google.…

You’ve likely seen the classic globe image that shows Earth at night. It’s…

Part celebration of Samantha Cristoforetti, the first Italian woman to fly into space,…

David Yanofsky and Tim Fernholz for Quartz visualized the satellites orbiting Earth. There’s…

Impressive work in A Spacecraft for All:
This Chrome Experiment follows the unlikely…

New Scientist quickly covers three theories of space and time in an informational…

In a step-by-step narrative, produced by Adam Becker, MacGregor Campbell and Peter Aldhous…

It can be difficult to imagine the scale of planets and moons, because…

Illustrator Ron Miller imagined what Earth’s skies would look like if we had…

The Kepler mission by NASA has discovered more than 100 planets that orbit…

Over the last 12 years, astronauts have taken a lot of pictures from…

Long distances (and big numbers) can be difficult grasp. Designers Jesse Williams and…

How big is the Moon, really? Reddit user boredboarder8 provided some perspective with…

In a beautiful rendition of the galaxy, Google visualized 100,000 stars, starting at…

Artist Brad Goodspeed imagined what the planets would look like if they were…

While we’re on the subject of stars, developer Riley Davis modeled the ones…

Molecular astrophysicist Invader Xan drew spaceships, real and fictional, to scale.
This, my…

Game developer Christopher Albeluhn found himself unemployed, so he started to work on…