The discovery potentially transforms what we think about how the cosmic environment influences galaxies as they form.

A giant rotating filament of the cosmic web may be the largest spinning structure ever seen, and could help reveal how ...

The largest spinning structure ever seen was a giant rotating filament of the cosmic web, a rotation with clues about how ...

Space is packed with all sorts of weird and unexpected stuff, but this humongous, spinning string-thing raises a whole new ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the largest rotating structures ever reported: a ...

Razor-thin chain of 14 galaxies may be the biggest spinning structure yet ...

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These efforts also help uncover how galaxies form and change over time. While most ...

Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...

A team of astronomers looking at galaxies in the universe’s distant past have discovered nine young, compact galaxies, each weighing in at 200 billion times the mass of the Sun. Imagine receiving an ...