To obtain a mental picture of the distance to the nearest star, compared to the nearest planet, you must imagine a world in which the closest object to you is only five feet away - and there is nothing else to see until you have travelled a thousand miles.

We have abolished space here on the little Earth; we can never abolish the space that yawns between the stars. Once again, as in the days when Homer sang, we a…

Space can be mapped and crossed and occupied without definable limit; but it can never be conquered. When our race has reached its ultimate achievements, and t…

When the pioneers and adventurers of our past left their homes in search of new lands, they said good-bye forever to the place of their birth and the companion…

Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.

'Under the old dispensation, before the advent of science, when this little world was all, and the sun, moon, and stars were merely fixtures overhead to give l…

The double-sun system was relatively poor in comets; there were only a hundred billion of them.