A spiral galaxy, shaped much like our Milky Way, has been found in an era when astronomers believed such well-formed galaxies ...

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

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

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

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

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

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

The galaxy's discovery challenges our understanding of how galaxies were formed in the early period after the Big Bang.

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 ...

If you look across space with a telescope, you'll see countless galaxies, most of which host large central black holes, ...

A monster galaxy from the early universe shows that the cosmos was rich with oxygen when it was only less than 3% of its present age, astronomers have found. The discovery raises questions about how ...