Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible ...

This enormous chain of hundreds of galaxies—a cosmic filament—is twisting through space 400 million light-years away ...

Earlier this week, science writer Paul Sutter covered a bold new study that leans toward so‑called “fuzzy” dark matter as the hidden backbone of the cosmos. The research team compared three leading ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Neutrino particles have extremely small masses, yet there are so many of them that they carve out the large-scale structure ...

Primordial magnetic fields, billions of times weaker than a fridge magnet, may have left lasting imprints on the Universe. Researchers ran over 250,000 simulations to show how these fields shaped the ...

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When you gaze up at the night sky, it’s easy to feel as though you're looking into an endless, empty canvas sprinkled with ...

Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together. The razor-thin chain of galaxies sits inside a much larger filament that ...