A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

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 ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Shapley supercluster was one of five giant structures detected in a new study of the local ...

The researchers in a recent breakthrough have developed revolutionary and full-scale prototype instrumentation FROSTI, also ...

Astronomers accidentally uncovered an extremely dark primordial galaxy — one of the faintest objects in the universe — because of a typo in their telescope coordinates. When you purchase through links ...

For some reason the universe is full of stars, galaxies, and life. But it didn’t have to be this way. The Biggest Questions is a mini-series that explores how technology is helping probe some of the ...

Compared with the all-too-brief lifespan of 100 or so years for humans — and even less for most plants and animals — the age of the known universe is mindbogglingly long. Currently estimated to be ...

The Gemini Observatory has released the first color image of what astronomers are calling the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object is what is known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

You’d assume that the brightest object in the known universe would be a pretty easy thing to discover, but astronomers have only just spotted it. This overlooked show-off is a supermassive black hole ...

The human body thrives on the welcome confines of Earth, but in space, survival becomes a tense, daily challenge. Micro-gravity's effects on daily human activity, from eating to sleep to sex, are just ...