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Arcturus has been estimated to be roughly 25 times the diameter of the sun — about 20 million miles. If we could shrink our sun down to the size of a baseball, Arcturus would be a ball just over ...

As I sit here with the flu, the thought of travels to far away places makes for a pleasant distraction. How about a journey to Arcturus? If you could zoom away at light speed, you'd arrive in just ...

Life & Culture; The moon is slowly drifting away from Earth. Here’s how that affects us each day. Published: ; May. 13, 2025, 1:18 p.m.

FILE - This May 18, 1969 photo provided by NASA shows Earth from 36,000 nautical miles away as photographed from the Apollo 10 spacecraft during its trans-lunar journey toward the moon. (NASA via ...