Look up on a dark night and the stars seem scattered at random. Step back in scale, though, and the Universe looks nothing ...

Astronomers have identified one of the largest rotating structures ever observed, located 140 million light-years from Earth.

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Researchers have discovered a large, orderly spiral galaxy that formed soon after the Big Bang, when space was only about 1.5 ...

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

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the long-running Hubble tension. Galaxy counts reveal a sparsely populated ...

A surprisingly mature spiral galaxy named Alaknanda has been spotted just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang—far earlier ...

Nowadays, the dark of night is interspersed with the light of stars. But before the stars were born, did light shine at the beginning of the universe? The short answer is "no." But the long answer ...

"We showed that a void model is about one hundred million times more likely than a void-free model." Earth, its cosmic home the Milky Way, and even the very local region of universe around us could be ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London.View full profile Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum ...