Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the cosmic ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest structure in the universe, named Quipu. It has a mass of 200 quadrillion solar masses ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

For example, we do now know that habitable environments are very common in the universe. It is reasonable to generalize from here to a truly gargantuan number of habitable environments across the ...

NASA celebrates Edwin Hubble's discovery of a new universe Date: January 15, 2025 Source: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Summary: For humans, the most important star in the universe is our Sun ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The ...

Credit: SA GSFC / CIL / Adriana Manrique Gutierrez The James Webb Space Telescope might not have broken our understanding of the universe, after all. Previously, astronomers used Webb to spot ...

For example, we do now know that habitable environments are very common in the universe. It is reasonable to generalise from here to a truly gargantuan number of habitable environments across the ...

it’s not clear that the properties of a CCC Big Bang match the observed qualities of our early Universe, like the pattern in the cosmic microwave background, the leftover light from when the ...

A Yale-led team of astronomers has detected an intensely brightening and dimming quasar that may help explain how some objects in the early universe grew at a highly accelerated rate. The discovery, ...