If you thought the cosmic web was tangled enough, think again. A team of astrophysicists recently used gamma-ray bursts—those spectacular, enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest reaches of ...

New observations from the MeerKAT radio survey suggest our estimates of the cosmic dipole effect are actually in line with ...

Maddy has a degree in biochemistry from the University of York and specializes in reporting on health, medicine, and genetics. According to our best understanding, the universe should be homogeneous ...

The interactive online map, created using data from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, details some 800,000 galaxies across a vast cosmic distance. Scrolling and zooming in can take users some 13.5 ...

If you think a galaxy is big, compare it to the size of the universe: it's just a tiny dot which, together with a huge number ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A view of The Cosmic Horseshoe and its gravitational lens, in which an ultramassive black hole ...

Astronomers have discovered what could be the largest black hole ever detected. With a mass of 36 billion times that of our Sun, its gravity is so powerful that it bends the light of an entire galaxy ...

In the name of open science, the multinational scientific collaboration COSMOS on Thursday has released the data behind the largest map of the universe. Called the COSMOS-Web field, the project, with ...

"We've been waiting to reach this point for a long time." Using the largest catalog of exploding white dwarf vampire stars ever gathered has provided further evidence that dark energy, the mysterious ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration of the cosmic web where the universe's missing matter was discovered. | Credit: ...