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

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...

On a clear night, it might look like the stars above are distributed more or less evenly. But that isn't the case — all stars are part of a gigantic cosmic web that links galaxies across the universe ...

For the first time, astronomers have detected dark matter hanging from massive filaments that stretch across the universe and form a "cosmic web" that trap galaxies like morning dew on a spiderweb.

Galaxies aren’t scattered randomly they’re woven into vast filaments stretching across billions of light-years. These threads ...

On the largest scales possible, the universe resembles a web of light spun by an inconceivably large spider. Now, astronomers have detected very faint light from these cosmic web filaments in the deep ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...

Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While ...

Astronomers have revealed a cosmic butterfly to mark 25 years of a powerful space telescope. Students voted for the Gemini South telescope in Chile to image NGC 6302, a billowing planetary nebula, to ...