In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

New research from the SAGA Survey, comparing the Milky Way with 101 similar galaxies, unveils how our galaxy differs ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...

Scientists have officially given a name to the largest solar structure in the known universe. Astronomers have found the ...

Space has always captured human curiosity. Whether it's vastness, mystery or its planetary bodies. Many individuals, at some ...

Astronomers have identified what could be the largest structure ever observed in the known universe—a vast network of galaxy ...

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

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

A recent NASA report suggests that countless tiny particles could be coming together to create an invisible, foam-like dark matter right in the middle of our ...

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

Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ...