That’s the question this nifty interactive site tries to answer, placing a 100px Earth into space, then showing exactly how far it is to the moon and Mars, all within the confines of your browser. Even if you aren’t a space buff and/or design/development nerd, it’s worth a watch just for all the pretty scrolling.
Attempting to successfully cover a legend like David Bowie can be risky business. Looks like everyone's favorite astronaut Chris Hadfield did! After spending the last five months aboard the ISS, the Commander will be returning to Earth today -- which means no more awesome videos of zero-gravity experiments or poetically…
Because there's never a bad time for a reminder of how lonely and insignificant our lives are in this vast cold universe we call home, here are two brand new photos of Earth, taken from Saturn and Mercury, respectively. The Saturn photo, above, is fucking breathtaking and beautiful and heart-stopping…
Yesterday, we saw a truly beautiful panorama of shots taken by the Mars Curiosity rover showing the vast, foreign landscape that is the Red Planet's surface. Today, the curiosity offered a distinctly different view, sending home its first-ever photo of Earth taken from Mars. The view is breathtaking. Witness our planet…