The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

An animation posted to Twitter has shocked social media users by showing the impressive size of Jupiter and just how rapidly the solar system's largest planet rotates. The animation posted by ...

The Solar System is home to a remarkable range of planets, from tiny rocky worlds to massive gas giants. But just how big are these planets really? To put it into perspective, we can run some ...

Bigger than a planet? Smaller than an atom? Size comparison videos are all the rage and may scratch a very old itch. By Jenny Marder Not long ago, my 7-year-old son looked up from a picture he was ...

The James Webb Space Telescope provides an unprecedented view of the places where planets are born: protoplanetary disks, true cosmic cradles. Located about 525 light-years away, in the ...

Spanish 3D animator and YouTuber, MetaBallStudios, has assembled a series of comparison videos that paint Earth from a very unique perspective. The creative has, for example, compared the sizes of ...

In a new study, a team of astrophysicists, including two researchers at CU Boulder, have discovered a small and rocky world orbiting a star far from Earth—similar to our own planet, perhaps, but much ...

Want to know how the Millennium Falcon compares in size to an Imperial Star Destroyer? Just watch a Star Wars movie. But if you want to know how that hunk of junk compares to the Battlestar Galactica, ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's leading planet-hunting spacecraft has spotted its second planet that matches Earth's size ...

Astronomers have detected what may be four roughly Earth-size planets orbiting Tau Ceti, the nearest sun-like star. Two of the worlds appear to orbit within Tau Ceti's habitable zone, though a cloud ...