“Once upon a time, we soared into the Solar System. For a few years. Then we hurried back. Why? What happened? What… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Exploiting the moon, sooner or later, is going to happen: It is the perfect platform from which to jump to the rest… — Robert Bigelow Copy Share Image
I think Pluto has to be considered among the places in the solar system that are possible homes for life. — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
If you're creating a whole universe, even if it's a universe squeezed into a solar system, you have to use a little… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question… — Bruce Hood Copy Share Image
The earth's crust is very thin but the planet can act as a spaceship if a force or energy powerful enough was… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Not that chance dominated events in the early Solar System, for scientific determinism was also functioning. But chance is an essential factor… — Eric Chaisson Copy Share Image
“We are like the moon. The moon shines anyway, but it does not produce its own light. It reflects the light illuminated… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“There was something comforting about having a vast hydrogen furnace burning millions of tons of material a second at the centre of… — Iain M. Banks Copy Share Image
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
“Infinity fascinated her. How systems and universes could keep getting infinitely smaller in one direction and infinitely larger in another. How the… — Wendy Wunder Copy Share Image
I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
“That place, called the heliopause, is one definition of the outer boundary of the Empire of the Sun. But the Voyager spacecraft… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live in a very low state of the world, and pay unwilling tribute to government founded on force. There is not,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The future is about wings and wheels and new forms of space transportation, along with our deep-space ambition to set foot on… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
Light is the only connection we have with the Universe beyond our solar system, and the only connection our ancestors had with… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
“If the rocky ejecta from an impact hails from a planet with life, then microscopic fauna could have stowed away in the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“How do we distinguish between the legitimate skepticism of those who scoffed at cold fusion, and the stifling dogma of the seventeenthcentury… — Thomas Gilovich Copy Share Image
It's feasible that we'll meet other sentient life forms and conduct commerce with them. We don't now have the technology to physically… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
“You fling the book on the floor, you would hurl it out of the window, even out of the closed window, through… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“The transmission from the solar system ended. The deciphering computer now ran uselessly. The post was once again only hearing the noise… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
“What did happen to Mars, anyway? Our next door neighbor, the Red Planet, apparently was once covered with flowing rivers. What happened… — Joseph C. Jenkins Copy Share Image
“Eventually they climb sixteen steps into the Gallery of Mineralogy. The guide shows them a gate from Brazil and violet amethysts and… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Where is hell, anyway? Ancient man believed that hell was underground, in the center of the earth, where it was hot. This… — John Trigilio Jr Copy Share Image
“Things have becone even more mysterious. We have recently discovered that when we make observations at still larger scales, corresponding to billions… — Lee Smolin Copy Share Image
“The Cosmos extends, for all practical purposes, forever. After a brief sedentary hiatus, we are resuming our ancient nomadic way of life.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the… — George Gaylord Simpson Copy Share Image
It is my conclusion that UFOs do exist, are very real, and are spaceships from another or more than one solar system.… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
“The earth is a planet that contains living things; I am a planet that contains living dreams! The earth revolves around the… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
In future, children won't perceive the stars as mere twinkling points of light: they'll learn that each is a 'Sun', orbited by… — Martin Rees Copy Share Image
“All matter originates and exists only by virtue of a force which brings the particle of an atom to vibration and holds… — Max Planck Copy Share Image
Despite the immense distance between our own solar system (including the earth) and the nearest other solar systems, a journey from one… — Hermann Oberth Copy Share Image
Life is extremely resilient once it takes hold, but it requires rich chemistry, large energy sources, and stability, right from the beginning.… — Dimitar Sasselov Copy Share Image
“We have been installing solar power to numerous satisfied customers diagonally Australia for the past 3 years. Renewable energy sources setup in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
I hope that vigorous space exploration continues and that humankind will have a space station that resides between Earth and the moon.… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
Because Alpha Centauri is so close, it is our first stop outside our solar system. There's almost certain to be small, rocky… — Debra Fischer Copy Share Image
Society would not tolerate legislation declaring that the theory that the sun circles the earth be given equal time with the theory… — Robert E. Ornstein Copy Share Image
