A new way to study 3D maps of galaxies in the cosmos without compressing the data is revealing new information about the dark ...

Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

Seen as a long strand with smaller threads branching, the Quipu superstructure contains 68 galaxy clusters spanning 1.4 ...

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

Hidden information in maps of galaxies spread across the universe could soon come forth, thanks to a new way of interrogating the data that preserves the three-dimensional nature of these maps.

Astronomers using the UK Schmidt Telescope in New South Wales, Australia, have completed a detailed map of more than 83% of the local galaxies in ... the expansion of the universe from that ...

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

For a long time, scientists have believed that the universe looks the same no matter where you are or which direction you ...

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

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

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

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