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

A new breakthrough in cosmic mapping has unveiled the structure of a colossal filament, part of the vast cosmic web that connects galaxies. Dark matter and gas shape these filaments, but their faint ...

To construct a warp drive, we'd need 10 times more negative energy than all of the positive energy in the universe.

Professors Alexandra Amon, Jason Klusowski, Lue Pan and Maria Micaela Sviatschi are 2025 Sloan Research Fellows.

Beauty follows objective patterns in nature, guided by evolution and mathematics. The Fibonacci sequence and Golden Ratio ...

When two objects share a quantum state, their behaviour becomes mysteriously linked. If you measure one object, the state of ...

Early-career scholars recognized for pioneering work in statistics, physics, chemistry, astrophysics and computer science ...

An international team of researchers has found that dark matter dominates the halos of two supermassive black holes in ...

Four University of Cape Town (UCT) researchers are among 30 outstanding scientists recognised in the Fondation L’Oréal-UNESCO ...

Fast-moving stars zooming through our galaxy might have been slingshotted from a black hole inside the neighbouring Large ...

Einstein predicted that massive objects bend light as it passes through their gravitational field. This week, a new telescope ...

Galaxies and clusters are the ensembles of stars and other astronomical objects bound together by gravitational forces. Galaxies are ordered into galaxy groups, which are in turn organised into ...