Newly discovered Quipu, a superstructure in which galaxies group together in clusters and clusters of clusters, is the ...

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

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ...

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 ...

By looking ever further back in time, the James Webb Space Telescope is at last revealing the first galaxies – and a very ...

Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the ...

"For the first time, we could trace the boundary between the gas residing in galaxies and the material contained within the ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole.

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

After hundreds of hours of observations, researchers captured a highly detailed image of a long filament of the "cosmic web" ...