Astronomers have officially announced the name of the largest structure in the known universe. It was reported earlier this ...

This clear image of Messier 82 (M82) shows its glowing clouds and gas plumes. Stars in this galaxy form ten times faster than in the Milky Way. This NASA/ESA Hubble image shows the edge-on disk galaxy ...

Euclid telescope has located a rare hoop of light called an "Einstein ring" in a nearby elliptical galaxy. Though the galaxy has been on humans' radar for 140 years, its halo is new—and it has a lot ...

With a length of 428 megaparsecs, or around 1.39 billion light-years, the superstructure is the biggest ever spotted.

Blue stragglers, formed from the merger of two old red stars, shine with greater mass and a bluer hue, a theory confirmed by ...

Hubble captured Westerlund 1, a massive young star cluster with 50,000+ stars. This study reveals stellar motion, structure, ...

Researchers say they've discovered the largest known object in the universe, a galactic superstructure called Quipu.

Quipu, Hercules, Serpens–Corona Borealis and Sculptor–Pegasus are all larger than the fifth and final superstructure ...

The cosmic superstructure Quipu is more than 13,000 times the length of the Milky Way, and its mass is 200 quadrillion times ...