At the very largest scales, our universe resembles a spider web. Known appropriately as the cosmic web, it is the largest pattern found in nature. Within the cosmic web, there are small ...

By looking at light from distant exploding stars called supernovas, in 1998 astronomers discovered the universe isn't just ...

Galaxies are not islands in the cosmos. While globally the universe expands—driven by the mysterious "dark energy"—locally, ...

This graphic shows the emergence of a cosmic web in a cosmological simulation using general relativity. From left, 300,000 years after the Big Bang to right, a Universe similar to ours today.

According to a tenet scientists call the cosmological principle, our place in space is in no way exceptional. But recent ...

Researchers have unveiled a cosmic cycle where carbon, created in the explosions of stars, travels through space via a ...

Astronomers have discovered a rare group of five dwarf galaxies located relatively close to Earth; these galaxies exist in a near-perfect alignment, resembling a string of cosmic pearls in the sky.

The telescope will catalogue billions of new objects and produce a new map of the entire night sky every three days with the ...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering ...