Explore the largest 3D map of the universe ever created, featuring intricate details of celestial structures, galaxies, and ...

Researchers at Australia's space agency have built the largest map of the universe's magnetic fields yet ...

Magnetic fields are a fundamental part of the universe. They govern how small particles – the building blocks of planets, ...

Astronomers have threaded 164,000 galaxies into a single density map that traces the cosmic web from the present day back to ...

Group 15, a nearby group viewed 1.5 billion light-years away, shows the mature form of galaxy associations in the present-day universe—observed as they were 12.3 billion years into cosmic time. Credit ...

The largest magnetic map of the universe ever produced—five times larger than all previous efforts combined—marks the ...

Galaxies, like so many other astronomical objects, are surprisingly difficult to define. Here’s a hand-wavy attempt: a galaxy is a collection of stars, gas, dust and dark matter all held together by ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have created the most detailed map of the cosmic web ever.

Scientists have reported the discovery of the largest reliably measured superstructure—an enormous arrangement of galaxies, galaxy clusters, and dark matter linked together by gravity—in the universe.

This snapshot is just a small part of one of the most comprehensive and spectacular views yet of the universe — a web-like structure formed by millions of galaxies, stretching back to near the dawn of ...