Over the past few weeks, we’ve watched Pluto transform from a fuzzy gray ball into a reddish-pink world with ice…
Ron Miller's new coffee table book The Art of Space is a gorgeous history of scientific illustrations, full of retro…
The prospect of future tourists gawking at the ice fountains of Enceladus, the volcanoes of Io and the grand canyons…
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People like to make lists of things, especially lists of superlatives: the best, fastest, oldest, largest, heaviest…
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I picked half a dozen or so of my favorite illustrations and made them wallpaper-sized for all of my io9 friends.
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While astronomical art is my specialty, I can't do planets 24 hours a day. So sometimes I set that aside to do…
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When we discover a brand new exoplanet, we can only imagine what it might look like. But luckily for us, our…
BETTER THAN TATTOOINE | Our own Ron Miller shares his artist's impression of Kepler 47c, the first binary star…
NASA's Cassini spacecraft has spotted methane lakes in the so-called "tropics" of Saturn's moon, Titan. (Where…
Concept Artist Ron Miller (who often contributes to io9) wanted to celebrate his wife Judith's recent victory over…
Everything comes to an end, and our sun is no exception. A star happily cooking along in its middle age, Sol has…
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Is the world going to come to an end? Certainly! The real question is how it might happen. That's what this gallery…
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It would sometimes seem as though there are two solar systems: One including planets, and another including moons.…
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The greatest science fiction art doesn't just light up your retinas with wonder and strangeness — it also makes you…