A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a huge strand of galaxies, twisting around as though caught up in a ...

As a galactic archaeologist, my job is to reconstruct the past of our galaxy – and read the signs of its future.

A figure depicting the rotation of neutral hydrogen in galaxies residing in an extended filament, where the galaxies exhibit a coherent bulk rotational motion tracing the large-scale cosmic web, is ...

An international team of astronomers reports the discovery of a large-scale structure that consists of at least 20 massive galaxies. The structure, dubbed "Cosmic Vine," has a size of about 13 million ...

The universe has a hidden structure, and a University of Virginia professor is mapping it in 3D, using 46 million galaxies and quasars and 19 million stars. Satya Gontcho A Gontcho, an assistant ...

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Indian researcher Dr. Laishram names a newly discovered galaxy structure after Manipur's Loktak Lake to honor its cultural significance.

A 50-million-light-year-long flow of hydrogen gas has been observed linking two tiny galaxies 50 million light-years away, giving astronomers a spectacular view of how galaxies attract, warp, and ...

Over 60 hours of light data was used to create this stunning view of the gravitationally bound "Leo Triplet" galaxies.