Animation of the findings by researchers who used time-delay cosmography to independently confirm that the universe’s current ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

NASA's upcoming Nancy Grace Roman space telescope will capture thousands of puzzling structures called cosmic voids.

Webb uncovers evidence of giant primordial stars that may explain how early black holes formed less than a billion years ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

Our universe is filled with galaxies, in all directions as far as our instruments can see. Some researchers estimate that ...

Knotted structures once imagined by Lord Kelvin may actually have shaped the universe’s earliest moments, according to new ...

New images of the infant universe captured by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope (ACT) are the most precise "baby pictures" to date of the cosmos' "first steps" toward forming the first stars and ...

In a glimpse of the early universe, astronomers have observed a galaxy as it appeared just 800 million years after the Big ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows a CT scan of the universe with "slices" of the cosmos as it evolves. | ...

The Roman telescope promises to provide a clearer picture of the large-scale structure of the universe and the forces shaping ...