Eighteen-year-old YouTuber Christopher Slayton recently crafted entire planets, black holes, galaxies, and, well, the entire cosmos. And he used nothing but the blocks within Minecraft. In the more ...

In a game where you can build nearly anything, one 18-year-old spent two months creating and sharing the whole observable universe. Christopher Slayton, 18, is a long-time aficionado of Minecraft, a ...

If the internet has proven anything over the past decade, it’s that extremely dedicated Minecraft players are capable of creating just about everything in the beloved video game. From depicting nearly ...

Long before there was ever a Minecraft movie, and certainly before we knew that there might be a sequel, one teenage Minecraft player named Christopher Slayton was doing what many would call ...

Christopher Slayton, 18, spent two months intricately designing the planets. He even went skydiving to get a better appreciation for Earth. By April Rubin Christopher Slayton spent two months ...

Anybody who spends time thinking about the cosmos knows what it’s like to have a brain full of black holes (in a good way). But while Sagan-ian daydreaming about the massive regions of spacetime ...

There’s something about comparing the size of objects—say, moons or sci-fi starships—that is endlessly appealing. But while comparisons we’ve seen cover subsets of stuffs, none have looked at the big ...

Though the expansiveness of the universe may be daunting to some, 18-year-old Christopher Slayton decided to embrace the vastness rather than be intimidated by it. For nearly two months, he analyzed ...