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

A team of researchers believe they have identified a large, rotating structure 140 million light-years away from Earth. The ...

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

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Gemini South telescope is located on Cerro Pachón mountain in the Chilean Andes, at an elevation of over 2,700 meters ...