When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. The Shapley supercluster was one of five giant structures detected in a new study of the local ...

In 1972, the artist and poet Cecilia Vicuña strung blue yarn around her bedroom in the coastal city of Con Cón, Chile. “Tired of my room’s normality I have criss-crossed it with a blue thread … taut ...

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 ...

Astronomers have discovered what may be the largest-scale structure in the known universe — a group of galaxy clusters and clusters of galaxy clusters that spans roughly 1.3 billion light-years across ...