Astronomers have been able to image gas as it travels down a 3 million light-year-long cosmic highway between two growing ...

An international team has captured an unprecedented image of a cosmic filament connecting two galaxies. This discovery sheds ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Mathematical equations have shaped our understanding of the universe, and these nine have played a key role in changing the world.

The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental ...

A stronomers using the Very Large Telescope at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have imaged a filament of the ...

Matter in intergalactic space is distributed in a vast network of interconnected filamentary structures, collectively ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

The researchers took advantage of supercomputer simulations of the Universe run at MPA to calculate predictions of the expected filamentary emission given the current cosmological model. “When ...

In the moments before the Big Bang, our universe was a hot, dense, and extremely high-energy place. That all changed when the universe exploded 13.8 billion years ago. Rapid inflation divided a ...

"This may be reshaping how we think about the Universe, and it's exciting! There are still surprises left in cosmology, and who knows what discoveries will come next?" This research was published in ...

New research suggests that dark energy isn't needed to explain the acceleration in the expansion of the universe — instead suggesting giant voids in space are creating an illusion. When you ...