The discovery was made possible using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile, operated by the European Southern Observatory ...

A pillar of modern cosmology is the existence of dark matter, which constitutes about 85% of all matter in the Universe. Under the influence of gravity, dark matter forms an intricate cosmic web ...

Across cosmic history, powerful forces have acted on matter, reshaping the universe into an increasingly complex web of ...

"Little red dot" galaxies discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope in the early cosmos appear to be ruled by supermassive ...

Researchers studied how the universe’s structure changed over time. They found that the universe is less clumpy than expected ...

"The Hubble tension is now a Hubble crisis." The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that ...

A new study suggests that the cosmic web could have formed without relying on inflation driven by a scalar field. Instead, it ...

For decades, scientists assumed that the expansion of the universe was powered by a new entity, known as the inflaton, but ...

Astronomers discover a network of cosmic tunnels linking our solar system to distant galaxies, revealing a dynamic and ...

Credit: Robert Lea (created with Canva) A powerful combination of data from two very different astronomical surveys has allowed researchers to build a "cosmic CT scan" of the universe's evolution.

A powerful combination of data from two very different astronomical surveys has allowed researchers to build a "cosmic CT scan" of the universe's evolution. These snapshots reveal that, as forces like ...