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

Astronomers used an array of telescopes to find the most massive radio jet in the early universe. The celestial object is ...

Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.

Its goal is to examine nothing less than the essential ingredients of life in our galaxy and the origin of the universe ...

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

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

Scientists didn't expect that stars would be able to still form in the dwarf galaxy known as Leo P, which the James Webb Telescope recently imaged.

Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching ...

The structure is nearly 600 million light-years from Earth and is an early display of the nascent dark matter telescope's ...