In the almost three years since NASA proved that it could successfully deflect an asteroid, we’ve learned a lot about these ...

This hidden matter has been mapped using FRBs, intense millisecond-long pulses from galaxies located far away. With the help of 70 FRBs, which included one from 9 billion light years away, the ...

Dr Wang’s research focuses on the ‘Local Group’ (a pair of dark matter halo that includes our Milky Way and its neighbour Andromeda) and how it is linked to the larger cosmic web, a vast network of ...

Among all the tragic filaments Neil Gaiman spins in The Sandman, Nada emerges as the most haunting echo. Her story transcends ...

The largest and brightest is an enormous supergiant star about 100 times the mass of the Sun and five million times brighter.

New observations support the idea that hot, diffuse threads of gas called cosmic filaments connect clusters of galaxies ...

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...

Matter in intergalactic space is not randomly scattered - it forms a vast network of filamentary structures that make up the ...

Using data from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, an animation has been created that "reveals a 3-D slice through a network of ...