Conventional images of the Earth and the moon place them close together, the moon hovering, seemingly, right over our planet's shoulder. Of course, this isn't accurate; we know just from looking at ...

Across neuroscience, psychology and fringe physics, a provocative idea is gaining new language: that the human mind might be ...

For more than a century, popular culture has promised that humanity will spread effortlessly across the Solar System, turning ...

Illustration comparing the planets of the Solar System and the Sun on the same scale. The planets are shown to scale relative to each other but their distances are not. From left to right the bodies ...