These gigantic structures, which contain hundreds or even thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity, offer important ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of researchers found more than 280 galaxies stretched in a line ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted enormous, galaxy-scale shock waves rattling the "cosmic web" that connects nearly all known galaxies. These cosmic waves could reveal clues about how the ...

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

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

A team of astronomers has identified immense shockwaves radiating out from a massive collision in space as the biggest in the known universe. Hiding behind the dust and gas of our Milky Way galaxy is ...

A group of U.S. astronomers, including those from the University of Missouri and MIT, used data from three of NASA's Great Observatories to study the most massive cluster ever found in the early ...

After 25 years of development costing nearly $10 billion, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope finally launched on Christmas Day. Assuming there are no hiccups and the six-ton telescope is able to fully ...

Astronomers have just discovered the largest black hole in the history of space and the stunning find is rewriting all we know about our universe. But black holes are also proving to be the centre of, ...

Hiding behind our Milky Way galaxy is a collision so immense astronomers say it is the largest astronomical event in the universe. A team of astronomers has identified immense shockwaves radiating out ...