Is it possible to understand the universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - Observations by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope and Chandra X-ray Observatory are providing ...

The largest known structure in the Universe may be even larger than the large we thought it was. A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona ...

Astronomers have stumbled onto a structure so vast and so oddly shaped that it threatens to upend one of cosmology’s most ...

Astronomers at The University of Manchester have played a leading role in the discovery of a new cosmic object that is much ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A colossal structure in the distant Universe is defying our understanding of how the Universe evolved. In light that has traveled ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These efforts also help uncover how galaxies form and change over time. While most ...

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Astronomers have confirmed the earliest barred spiral galaxy in the universe, a Milky-Way-like structure that existed just 2 ...

This image shows five newly discovered superstructures. Quipu (red) is the largest structure ever found in the universe. The others are Shapley (blue), Serpens-Corona Borealis (green), Hercules ...