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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

What the researchers found, grimly, is that the universe has gotten gradually colder. Ten billion years ago, the average dust grain temperature in the sampled galaxies was warmer by about 10 degrees ...

For the first time, astronomers have spotted enormous, galaxy-scale shock waves rattling the "cosmic web" that connects nearly all known galaxies. These cosmic waves could reveal clues about how the ...

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 ...

Astronomers have uncovered a distant galaxy forming stars 180x faster than the Milky Way, revealing how early galaxies grew ...

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, ...