The universe is so unimaginably large that parts of it are literally impossible to see, because their light is too distant to reach us even after 14 billion years. Now we might know just how big the ...

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 ...

In the history of this humble little star-watching column, I've thrown a myriad of numbers at you about the sizes of the stars and planets visible in our night sky and the tremendous distances between ...

Within modern cosmology, the Big Bang marks the beginning of the universe and the creation of matter, space and time about 13.8 billion years ago. Since then, the visible structures of the cosmos have ...

Many textbooks and science educators have attempted to describe the Big Bang as the birth of the universe — an explosive ...

How to envision travel across the Visible Universe and beyond.<BR><BR>Space is big ... everyone knows that.<BR><BR>Consider your wardrobe. 2 metres high, 2 metres wide, 1/2 a metre deep. 2 cubic ...