Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent and role in shaping the universe.
This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...
A team of 48 astronomers from 14 countries, led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst, has discovered a population of dusty, star-forming galaxies at the far edges of the universe that formed ...
Astronomers have long debated why so many icy objects in the outer solar system look like snowmen. Michigan State University ...