As you may recall, way back in the mists of time I penned an article that attempted to describe a plethora of different computing options, ranging from a “huge hairy CPU chip” at one end to a “great ...

In our thinking, our solar system had finally joined the larger universe, and diagrams like these showed us as just one system in a larger galactic neighborhood. Astronomy Isaac Newton Solar System.

The earliest and most distant supermassive black hole discovered thus far by JWST is CEERS 1019, which existed just 570 ...

Our universe is 13.7 billion years old, but astronomers are peering deep into its history. See images, illustrations and diagrams of the universe from now back to the Big Bang.

Richard Feynman's famous diagrams embody a deep shift in thinking about how the universe is put together. Richard Feynman looked tired when he wandered into my office. It was the end of a long, ...

Meet the BOSS, the Largest Structure in the Universe (So Far) Astronomers recently discovered a wall of galaxies 1 billion light years across, larger than anything else yet identified in the cosmos.

Major Players in the MOOC Universe April 29, 2013 Millions of students have signed up for massive open online courses, and hundreds of universities are offering some form of Web-based curriculum.

Most artists wouldn't take on the staggering task of illustrating the end of the universe for their first major work, but then, most artists aren't as driven in capturing the cosmic as Paul Laffoley.

On the diagram, they overlap with the dimmest, reddest stars at the bottom right and continue off the page to the right. LP 944–20 in the bottom right corner is one.