From helping catalyze interstellar reactions and fueling the birth of stars to its presence in neighborhood gas giants like ...

With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

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

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching approximately 1.3 billion light-years long—more than 13,000 ...

"These two supernova remnants are helping us to better understand the dynamics of our home galaxy’s neighborhood," ...

It is not surprising that there are regions that are more densely populated by galaxies, and regions that are less populated.

One of those detections was EP240408a, an unusual blast that lit up discussions between astronomers. Zhang and his colleagues immediately utilized the spacecraft's second instrument, the Follow-up ...

Quipu's sheer size potentially makes it the largest object in the universe in terms of length, surpassing previous ...

Hubble’s high-resolution imagery allowed researchers to hone in on more of the Bullseye galaxy’s rings — and helped confirm ...

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md., wants nothing to do with the microscopic dust particles clinging to your clothing. So before you enter the room, you first must stand in a chamber ...

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