On a clear night, it might look like the stars above are distributed more or less evenly. But that isn't the case — all stars are part of a gigantic cosmic web that links galaxies across the universe ...

New data reveals a 3-million-light-year filament connecting two galaxies, each of which hosts a supermassive black hole. reading time 3 minutes Researchers compiled hundreds of astronomical ...

This landscape of “mountains” and “valleys” speckled with glittering stars is actually the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula. Captured in infrared light ...

Visualization of the largest structures in the universe from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. CREDIT NASA/University of Chicago and Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum The universe is peppered with ...

Take a 3D tour of James Webb Space Telescope's view of the 'Cosmic Cliffs' of the Gum 31 nebula (part of the Carina Nebula Complex). Credit: Producer: Greg Bacon & Frank Summers (STScI), NASA’s ...

"The overarching structure of the universe is the Cosmic Web, which you can imagine as a spider web, or a fishing net, in 3D. The basins of attraction are superimposed on this structure surrounding ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct image of the cosmic web, a vast and largely invisible structure that plays a ...

Astronomers have detected enormous shockwaves rattling the cosmic web that connects all galaxies in the universe, offering vital clues on how the largest structures in space were shaped. When you ...

"There are more questions than answers at this point." Dark energy could have an accomplice that helps it slow the growth of large cosmic structures, such as vast superclusters made up of clusters of ...