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

Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

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

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Shapley supercluster was one of five giant structures detected in a new study of the local ...

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock ...

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

While most of us are content “reaching for the stars” and “shooting for the moon,” a team of scientists at W.M. Keck Observatory took their ambitions a million steps further by discovering what is now ...

The giant jet flips the script on the origins of these structures, which were once thought to be linked only to extremely large black holes. Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have spotted a massive ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...