Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A figure depicting the rotation of neutral hydrogen in galaxies residing in an extended filament, where the galaxies exhibit a ...

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a huge strand of galaxies, twisting around as though caught up in a ...

Invisible forces, capable of shaping entire galaxies and accelerating cosmic winds to dizzying speeds, have just been observed by astronomers in Arp 220. This merging galaxy system is located ...

The existence of massive, elliptical galaxies in the early universe has puzzled astronomers for two decades. An international ...

A series of high-resolution simulations has revealed a striking new perspective on theMilky Way’s position in the cosmos. Far ...

For nearly a century, astronomers have known that the universe is expanding. Most galaxies are carried outward with the flow ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a “razor-thin” string of galaxies embedded in a giant spinning cosmic ...

Astronomers have produced the most detailed map yet of dark matter, revealing the invisible framework that shaped the Universe long before stars and galaxies formed. Using powerful new observations ...

What: New analyses using early observations from the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission examine how galaxy mergers ...

The discovery reinforces established theories about space. There could be many more satellite galaxies orbiting the Milky Way than previously thought or observed, according to astronomers. As many as ...

Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos, a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds of galaxies, gas and dark matter that makes up a filament in the ...