Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Studying the very distant Universe is hard. That’s because — not to be too on the nose about it — it’s far away. That makes it hard for many reasons. Objects that far away are small and faint, so we ...

COSMOS-Web was the largest General Observer program selected by the James Webb Space Telescope for Cycle 1. The team, led by RIT Associate Professor Jeyhan Kartaltepe, has publicly released its full ...

Astronomers just hit on a new method for locating galactic protoclusters, ancient and elusive clumps of gas and galaxies in the early universe: They can look for the protoclusters’ shadows. The new ...

A newly identified string of galaxies, stretched across tens of millions of light years and slowly turning in space, is ...

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