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 ...

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.

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.

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.

His diagram transformed our view of our place in the universe . But some diagrams do more than just crystallise the essential underlying structure of a complex system.