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

Although the occurrence climaxed on Jan. 21 with a conjunction—close alignment—of Saturn and Mercury, the planetary parade ...

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 ...

Galileo precedes today’s physicists by many generations, but his work underscores the interplay of intellect and observation ...

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

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

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

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