Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, leaving something behind. A dense plasma, made of fundamental particles ...

O ne of the greatest mysteries left for humans is the question; where is everybody else? Though there are around 200 billion trillion stars out there in the observable universe, we have found evidence ...

Despite its whimsical name, Quipu (pronounced “kee-poo”) is the largest confirmed superstructure in the universe to date in ...

A cosmic filament, 3 million light-years long, has been directly imaged for the first time — offering a new glimpse into the ...

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Astronomers have identified what they believe to be the largest structure in the universe to date. Named "Quipu" after the ancient Incan method of record-keeping, this colossal superstructure ...

An annual safety report to NASA has both praise and also underscores a number of cautionary woes, including the space ...

Astronomers discover Quipu, a colossal cosmic structure spanning 1.3 billion light-years, which could reshape our ...

Explore the James Webb Space Telescope's incredible discovery: a cosmic alignment revealing the teenage years of our Milky ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies roughly 13 billion light years away. Their study, published in The ...

Credit: NASA, ESA, Imad Pasha (Yale), Pieter van Dokkum (Yale ... Galactic collisions occur frequently in the universe, but the researchers highlight how rare it is for one galaxy to pass directly ...

Over two years — unless NASA decides to extend the mission — SPHEREx will map the universe while detecting two ... of a billionth of a second after the Big Bang, the observable universe went through a ...