Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing new insight on the evolution of the universe.

In a series of recent discoveries, scientists have uncovered cosmic structures that defy our current understanding of the ...

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The universe is truly magical: vast, mysterious, and endlessly fascinating. There’s something almost unreal about being able ...

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Like rivers feeding oceans, streams of gas nourish galaxies throughout the cosmos. But these streams, which make up a part of the so-called cosmic web, are very faint and hard to see. While ...

Galaxies in the universe trace patterns on very large scales; there are large empty regions (called “voids”) and dense regions where the galaxies exist. This distribution is called the cosmic web. The ...

Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

The magnetic fields that formed in the very early stages of the Universe, may have been billions of times weaker than a small fridge magnet, with strengths comparable to magnetism generated by neurons ...