The known universe is full of shockingly huge things. Here are the largest planets, stars, galaxies, and structures we've ...

“There’s a lot of meanings for ‘small,’” says Janet Conrad, a particle physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Astronomers have recently discovered that the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, a massive cosmic superstructure, might be much larger and closer to Earth than previously estimated. This remarkable ...

If you thought the cosmic web was tangled enough, think again. A team of astrophysicists recently used gamma-ray bursts—those spectacular, enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest reaches of ...

A Rutgers-led team of scientists has uncovered evidence of how galaxies expand by tracing the invisible scaffolding of the ...

REUTERS - Astronomers have discovered the largest known structure in the universe - a group of quasars so large it would take 4 billion years to cross it while traveling at speed of light. The immense ...