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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Jared Carvalho is a Contributor from the United States and a longtime fan of video games, having started the hobby with a SNES when he was six and never looking back since. He often finds himself ...

NASA’s Kepler mission has discovered the first Earth-size planets orbiting a sun-like star outside our solar system. The planets, called Kepler-20e and Kepler-20f, are too close to their star to be in ...

We have detected only one transiting planet that has a mass below 10 Earth masses. This world, CoRoT-7b (named after the European Convection, Rotation and planetary Transits satellite) has a radius ...

For planet-hunting astronomers seeking twins or even cousins of Earth around other stars, the universe has just become much less lonely. To qualify as close planetary kin, another world must be rocky ...

TRAPPIST-1 has a solar system like no other. The tiny, tiny red dwarf is just barely big enough to be considered a star and is, radius-wise, a hair bigger than Jupiter. When it was announced last May ...