Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion ...

An international team of researchers has found dark matter dominating the halos of two supermassive black holes in galaxies ...

By observing tiny ripples in spacetime called "gravitational waves" that propagate away from colliding black holes, ...

The "dark universe detective" space telescope Euclid has discovered its first Einstein ring in the process, learning about dark matter at the heart of a distant galaxy.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

Researchers are delving into the world of starquakes to understand the densest matter in the universe within neutron stars. This study not only bridges the gap between astronomy and nuclear physics ...

Is it possible to understand the Universe without understanding the largest structures that reside in it? In principle, not ...

Astronomers have characterized the largest-ever early-Universe radio jet. Historically, such large radio jets have remained elusive in the distant Universe. With these observations, astronomers have ...

A quasar from the early universe has revealed the longest black hole jet ever detected, spanning 200,000 light-years.

In total, they make up 13% of the universe's volume. This image shows the five newly discovered superstructures. Quipu (red) is the largest structure found in the local universe.

As night falls on the Atacama desert in northern Chile four giant telescopes turn their gaze towards the star-strewn heavens.

Software engineers have been hard at work to establish a common language for a global conversation. The topic—revealing the ...