After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

It is not surprising that there are regions that are more densely populated by galaxies, and regions that are less populated.

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

In this video narrated by Elizabeth Landau, hear how NASA’s SPHEREx mission will map the entire sky in over 100 infrared colors, combining a wide field of view with spectral imaging to explore the ...

In a significant astronomical discovery, researchers found three ultra-faint dwarf galaxies, offering new insights into the ...

A unique dataset of Type Ia supernovae being released today could change how cosmologists measure the expansion history of ...

A new telescope could launch as early as late February. SPHEREx will look into deep space and also search for organic ...

The passing gravitational waves “stretch or contract the universe by around 20 meters [about 65 feet] or so,” says Matthew ...

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

(THE CONVERSATION) If you want to know what happened in the earliest years of the universe, you are going to need a very big, very specialized telescope. Much to the joy of astronomers and space fans ...

Wherever we look in the Universe we see spiral galaxies. 70% of all galaxies today have this spiral structure that show up in their stars and their gas that’s used to make more s ...