Scientists have observed the largest-known rotating structure in the cosmos - a gargantuan thread-like assemblage of hundreds ...

Galaxies like our Milky Way grew through cascading mergers of smaller galaxies that began billions of years ago. The ancient ...

A team of astronomers studying the distribution of galaxies in nearby space has discovered something truly extraordinary: a ...

A newly-detected spinning galaxy filament is reshaping our understanding of cosmic structure, gas flows, and the origins of ...

Scientists are testing a novel way to measure cosmic expansion using time delays in gravitationally lensed quasars. Their ...

It’s always amazing, and more than a little humbling, when the universe reminds us that our “common sense” is provincial, ...

From Molecules to Galaxies, organized by graduate students and postdoctoral researchers from across the Penn State ...

From this vast array of options, Variety TV critics Aramide Tinubu and Alison Herman have each selected their 10 favorite ...

In the leading model of cosmology, most of the universe is invisible: a combined 95% is made of dark matter and dark energy.

A type of chaos found in everything from prime numbers to turbulence can unify a pair of unrelated ideas, revealing a ...

But the Big Bang theory predicts that about 5% of the universe’s contents should be atoms made of protons, neutrons and electrons. Most of those atoms cannot be found in stars and galaxies – a ...