Astronomers have captured the first high-definition image of the vast cosmic web, unveiling the delicate filaments that ...

Galaxies don't float around at random. They line up along strands of cosmic filaments, sometimes stretching millions of light ...

Voluminous clouds of cosmic dust permeate our galaxy, but only recently has software allowed detailed observations of the ...

Dark matter, though invisible, weaves a vast cosmic web that binds galaxies together. For the first time, astronomers have ...

Cosmic microwave background is a sea of radiation that provides us with evidence for the big bang. When around 1916 Einstein first used general relativity to build a cosmic model, he followed the ...

Cosmic inflation is a faster-than-light expansion of the universe that spawned many others. Inflation was invented to explain a couple of features of the universe that are really hard to explain ...

Astronomers led by Stanford University and Harvard believe the "remarkable" cosmic explosion could either be the first X-ray burster ever discovered in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a rare ...

Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars form a beautiful cloudscape in a neighboring nebula. Fluffy strands of cosmic gas and dust illuminated by bright young stars ...