Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy clusters and superclusters containing an astonishing 200 quadrillion solar ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Shapley supercluster was one of five giant structures detected in a new study of the local ...

The light from the most distant galaxy in the known universe suggests that there's something off about our current cosmological models, a new James Webb Space Telescope study finds. The explanations ...

Compared with the all-too-brief lifespan of 100 or so years for humans — and even less for most plants and animals — the age of the known universe is mindbogglingly long. Currently estimated to be ...

The Gemini Observatory has released the first color image of what astronomers are calling the most distant object ever seen in the universe. The object is what is known as a gamma-ray burst (GRB) ...

Ordinary matter – basically, anything other than dark matter – makes up about 15% of all matter. But half of it has long been missing. Powerful bursts of radio waves emanating from 69 locations in the ...

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NASA's advanced space observatory known as SPHEREx is on its cosmic journey to solve some of the universe's biggest mysteries. The space telescope, which NASA has spent years developing, launched ...

UC Santa Cruz physicist Stefano Profumo has put forward two imaginative but scientifically grounded theories that may help solve one of the biggest mysteries in physics: the origin of dark matter. In ...