Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy clusters and superclusters containing an astonishing 200 quadrillion solar ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." ...

The Einstein ring, formed as light from a distant galaxy bends to glow around another object in the foreground, could help ...

Neutrinos are ghostly subatomic particles that can travel in a straight line for billions of light-years, passing unhindered ...

If scientists confirm an anisotropic expansion, it would challenge the assumption that the universe has no preferred directions.

"Formally, this light is called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), but we sometimes just call it the universe's baby picture because it's a snapshot of when it was around 380,000 years old." ...

Scientists have discovered the largest known structure in the universe, a massive superstructure named Quipu. This enormous cosmic formation weighs an astonishing 200 quadrillion times the mass of the ...

But they’ve been elusive in the distant early universe — until now — because of the obscuring cosmic microwave background left over from the Big Bang. “It’s only because this object is so extreme that ...

Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries ... “Their absence has previously been attributed to the cosmic microwave background (leftover radiation from 13.8 billion years ...

Researchers said on Thursday that they had discovered twin-lobed radio jets they suspect were formed when the universe was ...