Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

The Milky Way, our home galaxy, is part of a different supercluster called Laniakea, which, at 500 million light-years wide, ...

Mysterious dark matter makes up 85 percent of matter in the universe, and of the remaining 15 percent, scientists couldn’t ...

Active since last week, the shower is formed from a comet’s debris and is forecast to produce the most fireballs overnight.

By mapping the brightest explosions in the universe, scientists may have uncovered a megastructure that defies our ...

Astronomers may have found the long-missing half of the universe's regular matter—and it appears to have been right under our ...

A new analysis of the sky has finally confirmed where the missing half of the Universe's visible matter has been hiding.

which stretches out for around 10% of the total width of the entire observable universe. "Since the most distant extent of the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall is hard to verify, the most ...

Despite decades of searching for this signal, astronomers have yet to find it. The problem is that our Earth is too noisy, ...

It’s the edge of the observable universe,” Simone Ferraro ... and writes/edits about sci-fi and how our world works. You can find his previous stuff at Gizmodo and Paste if you look hard ...

An exciting finding on a distant planet should also make us thankful for anyone who is doing the long, hard work of science.