This visualization of the Laniakea supercluster, which represents a collection of more than 100,000 estimated galaxies spanning a volume of over 100 million light-years, shows the distribution of dark ...

Cosmic voids may seem like the emptiest places in the universe, stripped of matter, radiation, and even dark matter. But they’re far from nothing. Even in these vast empty regions, the fundamental ...

Researchers have identified a potential mechanism that explains how turbulent plasma can produce the vast, ordered magnetic fields observed across the universe Cosmic magnetic fields are everywhere, ...

Astronomers have spotted one of the largest spinning structures in the Universe, and it could reveal how the Milky Way was formed. Using some of the world's most powerful telescopes, a team of ...

Astronomers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) – working with colleagues from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France), ...

A new three-volume study explores how quantum physics, gravitation and cosmology may be understood within a unified ...

The first moments of the Universe can be reconstructed mathematically even though they cannot be observed directly. Physicists have greatly improved the ability of complex computer simulations to ...

On the largest scales, the Universe looks like a vast cosmic web. Stars link up into galaxies, which are clustered together in galactic groups. Many groups bound together lead to galaxy clusters, and ...

There is a force called “dark flow” that exists outside our universe, and it’s tugging several galaxy clusters at 2 million mph toward an empty spot in space between Centaurus (pictured) and Vela.