A research team from Imperial College London and the University of Barcelona has used data from astronomical surveys to measure a standard distance that is central to our understanding of the ...

It’s a bit mind-bending to realise that everything we know about the scale of the universe comes from people stuck on a tiny rock, peering through glass at dots of light. We can’t exactly pull out a ...

One of the major problems in astronomy is measuring very large distances in the universe. The current most common methods measure relative distances, but now research from the Niels Bohr Institute ...

Google Maps can help you navigate in the real world, but it can also help you determine the distance between points on any map. But don't worry — this doesn't require you to estimate using that scale ...