The resemblance is striking when viewed through cosmic maps. The structure was found as part of the CLASSIX Cluster Survey ...

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

The expanding universe is one of the most fascinating and far-reaching discoveries in modern science. At its core lies a ...

And with that beginning came an ancient, renewed question: if there was a starting point, who or what started it?This ...

A team of astronomers has presented a theory suggesting that Earth and our entire galaxy, the Milky Way, may be located ...

The South Pole Telescope has released its most precise image yet of the universe’s first light—the cosmic microwave background. This new ground-based data confirms cosmic expansion anomalies and ...

Evidence is mounting that cosmic dark energy, long thought constant, may weaken with time - potentially altering the fate of ...

After the discovery of the cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964, and especially when its spectrum (i.e., the amount of radiation measured at each wavelength) sketched out a blackbody ...