In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

Located around 900 light-years away in the Puppis constellation, Tylos orbits its parent star at an absurdly close distance, ...

This fascinating region lies in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy ... Located 1,60,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud is 10-20 per cent as massive as the Milky Way.

Astronomers have discovered what they are calling the largest-known structure in the universe. Named "Quipu" after an Incan ...

Astronomers have claimed to discover the largest structure in the universe. Named ‘Quipu’, after an Incan measuring system, ...

In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way ... (located 13,599 feet up in Hawaii) and the European Space Agency's Gaia satellite (which surveyed a whopping 2 billion objects in our galaxy).

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

Giant radio galaxies are cosmic megastructures that can span millions of light-years, making them some of the largest-known structures in the Universe.

MeerKAT’s newest giant radio galaxy find is extraordinary. The plasma jets of this cosmic giant span 3.3 million light-years from end to end – over 32 times the size of the Milky Way.

A European Space Agency telescope has discovered its first "extremely rare" Einstein ring in a galaxy "not too far away" ...

The MeerKAT telescope is located in the Karoo region of South Africa, is made up of 64 radio dishes and is operated and managed by the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory. It's a precursor to ...