"We believe that the universe on very large scales is made of a network-like distribution of galaxies, gas and dark matter," ...

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

Welcome to the final winter edition of the Icebox! After three years of keeping it cool with lots of video games, anime and just a hint of Venom, the Icebox series is nearing the end of its time here ...

Most of the universe cannot be seen with any telescope, and that is not because scientists lack powerful tools. It is because ...

New simulations reveal that the Milky Way’s odd split between two chemically distinct groups of stars isn’t a universal ...

Astronomers have discovered one of the largest rotating structures ever seen in the universe: a razor-thin line of galaxies ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has delivered a new kind of galactic portrait, revealing a luminous thread of gas and newborn ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

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

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.