Understanding the nature of our cosmos requires an accurate map of how galaxies are spread throughout it. For decades, ...

A team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope to chart 164,000 galaxies across billions of light-years, producing the most detailed three-dimensional map ever assembled of the vast, ...

For years, scientists have worked to chart the universe’s massive structure, aiming to test key models of cosmology. These efforts also help uncover how galaxies form and change over time. While most ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Its name is Quipu, and astronomers estimate that its massive bulk stretches some 1.39 billion light-years ...

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 ...

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped the "cosmic web" of galaxies, the largest structure in the universe, with unprecedented detail.

A team of researchers led by the University of Arizona recently used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to examine a group of 10 galaxies that existed only 830 million years after the Big Bang, ...

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Mikhail Ivanov, Oliver Philcox, and Marko Simonović won the New Horizons Award for their work on large scale structures — the strands and filaments of our universe which contain buried clues to its ...

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