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

The universe is not just large - it is structured in layers that grow exponentially in size. Solar systems form galaxies, ...

There is an important and unresolved tension in cosmology regarding the rate at which the universe is expanding, and ...

New measurements using gravitational lensing suggest the universe’s current expansion rate does not agree with signals from ...

The filament of matter stretches 50 million light-years, and contains a row of galaxies 5.5 million light-years long that are ...

Astronomers analyzing Sloan Digital Sky Survey data stumbled onto something they weren’t expecting: a structure stretching ...

Researchers have found a razor-thin, rotating string of galaxies inside a massive cosmic filament, revealing unexpected ...

The surface of Earth is finite. We can measure it. If it was expanding, then its size would grow with time. And once again, good ol' Earth helps us understand what the universe might be doing beyond ...

In smaller dark stars, when their dark matter runs out, normal nuclear fusion can begin, and they gradually become normal ...

Inside the American Museum of Natural History's glass cube, the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and ...

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