Astronomers discover an 850,000 light-year-long cosmic filament in the early universe, providing insights into large-scale ...

Galaxies like the Milky Way boast more than spirals; they also have feathers, where clumps of new stars are born. Astronomers ...

Galaxies don't float around at random. They line up along strands of cosmic filaments, sometimes stretching millions of light ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weaves a vast cosmic web that binds galaxies together. For the first time, astronomers have captured a sharp image of one of these filaments, stretching 3 million ...

Swirling through the Milky Way's central zone, in the turbulent region surrounding the supermassive black hole at the core of ...

Europe's Euclid space telescope, which is on a mission to shed light on the mysteries of dark matter and dark energy, ...

A massive filament of gas and dust, designated X7, has been elongated during its long approach to the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. See W.M. Keck Observatory imagery ...

particularly its influence on galaxy formation and evolution within the cosmic web.” As astronomers continue to refine their observational techniques, the discovery of more cosmic filaments ...

Many spiral galaxies contain a bar structure that crosses through the center. This photo is of the barred spiral galaxy NGC ...

The telescope launched in 2023, aiming to chart one third of the sky -- encompassing 1.5 billion galaxies -- to create what ...

The early data already offers hints about the structure of the universe known as the “cosmic web”. Read more at ...

This dwarf galaxy is located at the tail end of a filament of gas attached to the spiral galaxy dubbed "NGC 3314A." Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events ...