Light travels at an astonishing speed of approximately 299,792 kilometers per second, which is roughly 186,282 miles per sec...
The Andromeda Galaxy is on a collision course with our Milky Way! In about 4 billion years, these two galactic giants will m...
For 1,500 years, the geocentric model reigned supreme, with dissenters facing persecution. History teaches us that new ideas...
This is K2-18b. It lies in the habitable zone, and it has the potential to possess a hydrogen-rich atmosphere and a water oc...
This is UY Scuti, the largest known star. 5 billion Suns, 7 trillion Jupiters or 7 quadrillion Earths would fit inside this ...
The Pistol Star is the most luminous star known. It is 10 million times brighter than the Sun. In just 20 seconds it emits t...
It takes light about 1.3 seconds to travel from the Moon to Earth. 8 minutes and 20 seconds to travel from the Sun to Earth....
This is not an alien planet! This a view of Earth from 15°-145°, showing the center of the Pacific Ocean.
Warm water freezes faster than cold water. The reason is that hot water evaporates faster than cold, decreasing its volume a...
This is the first aircraft detection device ever used. The picture is from WW1. They were replaced by radio systems and rada...
A day on Venus is longer than a year. It takes Venus longer to rotate once on its axis than to complete one orbit of the Sun...
Google employee, Blake Lemoine, reportedly put on leave after claiming chatbot became sentient, similar to a ‘kid that happe...
Proxima Centauri, the closest star to our own, is still 40,208,000,000,000 km away. When we talk about the distances ...
The Sun accounts for 99.86% of the mass in our solar system with a mass of around 330,000 times that of Earth. Did you know that the Sun is made up...
The planet Saturn would float on water—it’s the only planet in our solar system that would.
We know more about Mars’s surface than we do about Earth’s oceans. Oceans cover approximately 71% of Earth’s surface, and we’ve mapped only a fifth...
A 66-year-old retired photography lecturer has taken a series of incredible images of the Sun's surface from his garden in Kent.
