RIT associate professor Michael Zemcov is a co-investigator on NASA’s SPHEREx mission, launching in early 2025, which will map the entire sky.

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

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

Despite its whimsical name, Quipu (pronounced “kee-poo”) is the largest confirmed superstructure in the universe to date in ...

While mapping the nearby universe, astronomers discovered the largest-known structure in the universe, about 425 million to ...

SPHEREx is short for short for: Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer.

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

An international team of astronomers has captured the most detailed image ever of a cosmic filament, a vast structure of gas ...

Astronomers capture a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, offering a rare glimpse into the hidden framework of the universe.

For a long time, scientists have believed that the universe looks the same no matter where you are or which direction you look. This idea, called the Cosmological Principle, is a key assumption in ...

Scientists have identified what might be the largest structure ever found in the universe —a massive web of galaxy clusters ...

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...