09-24-2015 TECH Yes, This GIF Takes 1,000 Years To Loop Counting from 1 to 48,140,288, this GIF needs a home for the next millenia.

Sci-fi (and gif fans) rejoice! Someone turned 2001: A Space Odyssey into a series of 569 gifs and posted them all in order on to Giphy.

The laughter of the laugh-loop GIF is both infinite and inexplicable, it erupts over and over again, without reason and without end.

Airbus has unveiled a concept design for a gorgeous-looking space station that it says could one day orbit Earth or another planet far away.

Meet Orbo. He’s one of the most prolific and talented GIF artists on the Internet. His specialty is making GIFs that never end because they’re stuck in an infinite loop. I can stare at them ...

Though it’s almost 30 years old, the humble gif has had something of a resurgence of late, its simplicity slotting in perfectly as part of today’s fast, frivolous vernacular. The file format ...

How do you build a GIF that takes 1,000 years to loop? Use 48,140,288 frames that tick forward on a 10-minute interval. That's what artists Juha van Ingen and Janne Särkelä have done. And none ...

In addition to exploring the solar system and performing critical and fascinating research on the Earth itself, NASA produces a lot of cool imagery. And as we all know, GIFs are the best way to ...

This GIF shows the results of an unprecedentedly detailed simulation of the intergalactic medium (IGM), the gas-suffused, dust-sprinkled space between galaxies.

Eran Mendel is a minimalist-style animator whose "Game of Thrones" gifs have been super popular this season.

The second GOES-1 weather satellite GIF loop shows the eruption in infrared. As you can see, an eruption of this scale will spread pretty quickly throughout the surrounding states.