I'm not entirely sure because the website is i...  ...alled L’éclat offers chocolate versions of the planets of our solar system. Sadly, they're not to scale,...

If the day after Christmas strikes you as a letdown, make a note to yourself now to get outside on Monday evening. NASA tells us there's going to be a conjunction of heavenly bodies. The action begins shortly before sun...

It seems like astronomers are finding more and mor...  ...ar away. What if we could travel to those distant planets we know a little about? Vincent Vermeij (Chungkon...

This photo essay puts in perspective the size and scope of the universe and what we can see from our tiny planet from distant stars to two light year wide galaxies. Click on the link for the full image gallery. What mig...

While our space probes and the Hubble Space Telescope have made great advances in recent years bringing us photos of the cosmos, there are still many places in our own solar system that close photography is just out of r...

The following is an article from the science humor...  ...er With the loss of Pluto, the number of major planets in our solar system has dropped to eight. If the...  ...03 the solar system will no longer have any major planets . My analysis, below, suggests several possible ca...  ...ts several possible cause...

If I lived on Neptune I would be less than a N...  ...ows you to figure out your “age” on different planets (including dwarf planet Pluto). Every grade schoo...

Many science fiction scenarios have planets with two or even more stars. How would life evolv...

(vimeo link) Brad Goodspeed watched the recen...  ...o us as the moon. Then he thought about the other planets . In this animation, he has several planets revolving around the earth at the same distance a...

My, how things change! This Twaggie by David Barneda was inspired by a Tweet by Rosa Golijan. Ten years from now, how many more of our perceptions about the cosmos will have changed? Link...