Astronomers have recently identified a cosmic structure so vast that it challenges our understanding of the universe’s scale.

A team of astronomers has identified immense shockwaves radiating out from a massive collision in space as the biggest in the known universe. Hiding behind the dust and gas of our Milky Way galaxy is ...

This new release presents the largest interactive deep space catalog ever created - over 800,000 galaxy images - offering scientists and the public unparalleled and interactive access to the early ...

A group of U.S. astronomers, including those from the University of Missouri and MIT, used data from three of NASA's Great Observatories to study the most massive cluster ever found in the early ...

Space. It's really, really big. How big is it? Well, according to astronomers, the observable universe is around 92 billion light-years in diameter, but that's all we can see (hence the word ...

The researchers discovered something crucial. When shock waves reach the outer edges of a galaxy cluster, they collide with ...

Galaxy clusters are the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe, with each containing hundreds or even ...

Scientists have released a new study that catalogues the universe by mapping huge clusters of galaxies. These clusters are some of the largest known objects in the universe — and they can help ...

This distant explosion was five times more powerful than the previous record holder Telescopes scanning the far reaches of space have turned up something remarkable, an immense cavity in the ...

Astronomers have just discovered the largest black hole in the history of space and the stunning find is rewriting all we know about our universe. But black holes are also proving to be the centre of, ...