With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

The Copernican principle states that the Earth is not in a special place in the Universe. Us humans are not privileged ...

Raised in the Lutheran church, Tycho was led to believe that the earth was the center of the universe, but his carefully ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New findings risk turning the tension into a crisis, scientists say.

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

Frontier, the second fastest supercomputer in the world, used dark matter and the movement of gas and plasma rather than just ...

Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an abundance of evidence that something fishy is happening in the universe.

Caputo et al. 2016; background, Axel Mellinger, Central Michigan University Dark matter can't be too heavy or it might break our best model of the universe, new research suggests. We have an ...

For most of history, the Moon was regarded as a mysterious and powerful object. Then scientists made it into a destination ...