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

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

If not in visible stars and galaxies, the most likely hiding place for the matter is in the dark space between galaxies.

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

R esearchers have calculated one of the most precise estimates for the expansion rate of the universe today, and it turns out ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

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Two barred spiral galaxies, known as NGC 7733 and NGC 7734, are in the process of merging. The lower galaxy has a dusty knot atop its upper arm, which marks a third galactic companion. | Credit: ...

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