These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

Space. It's really, really big. How big is it? Well, according to astronomers, the observable universe is around 92 billion light-years in diameter, but that's all we can see (hence the word ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. How will the universe end? – Iez M., age 9, ...

Astronomers have long estimated that ordinary matter – basically, anything other than dark matter – makes up only a fraction of the known universe. The conclusion stemmed from a complex calculation ...