A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Scientists have released a new study on the arXiv preprint server that catalogs the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates.

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These efforts also help uncover how galaxies form and change over time. While most ...

The biggest explosion seen in the universe has been found. This record-breaking, gargantuan eruption came from a black hole in a distant galaxy cluster hundreds of millions of light years away.

A baby galaxy is throwing one heck of a tantrum, and it's shaking up our understanding of the earliest galaxies. Recently, an international team of astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope ...

Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...