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

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from the early cosmos.

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

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

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes up a filament in the ...

Black holes, born from dying stars, are cosmic giants that grow by consuming matter and merging with others. While invisible ...

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

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

Galaxy Alaknanda challenges long-held theories of galaxy formation, which maintained that stable spiral galaxies could only ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

Will the universe keep existing forever? An astrophysicist explains how scientists aren’t entirely sure, but they can make predictions.