Faint structures play a crucial role in cosmic development, and scientists are only just beginning to grasp their full extent ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. (Left) An image of the sky in the direction of the cosmic web detection (Right) The image shows ...

An international team led by the University of Oxford has identified one of the most massive and unusual structures in the Universe, a giant cosmic filament located 140 million light-years away. This ...

Observations of a galaxy from an early period of the Universe’s history reveal a bar-shaped structure and gas dynamics thought not to have been possible at that time. In broad brushstrokes, galaxies ...

Cosmic web Created using data from the JWST, this map shows how dark matter acts as the hidden framework on which visible galaxies are built. The overlaid contours mark regions of equal dark-matter ...