New observations suggest our estimates of the cosmic dipole effect are actually in line with the large scale structure of the universe. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Shapley supercluster ...

Image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope, showing two dwarf galaxies (NGC 4490 and NGC 4485, depicted as glowing hues) connected by a wispy bridge of gas (seen as a red stream). There are ...

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 ...

When we look for “the biggest” in the universe, it is important to specify our definition of the object of study. Is it something indivisible and with a neat boundary, like a black hole? Or do we ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

A multifractal spectrum called a weighted Cantor set model can describe how galaxies cluster, which is similar to other ...

For decades, scientists have worked to map the universe’s large-scale structure, testing cosmological models and ...