Astronomers have threaded 164,000 galaxies into a single density map that traces the cosmic web from the present day back to ...

The most powerful cosmic rays raining down on Earth may come not from distant corners of the universe but from heavy dark matter particles that annihilate themselves in our own backyard. Cosmic rays ...

Scientists have released the largest and most detailed maps ever made of the universe’s magnetic fields, using data from ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows a CT scan of the universe with "slices" of the cosmos as it evolves. | ...

"The overarching structure of the universe is the Cosmic Web, which you can imagine as a spider web, or a fishing net, in 3D. The basins of attraction are superimposed on this structure surrounding ...

In the early 2000s, it seemed that cosmologists had solved the largest and most complex puzzle of all: how the universe works. “There was this amazing moment when all of a sudden, all the pieces in ...

Image showing the positions of all the stars targeted by COSMIC thus far with data recorded into a database of potential signals. We have collected data on over 485,000 sources across the frequency ...

"This process is like a cosmic CT scan, where we can look through different slices of cosmic history and track how matter clumped together at different epochs." When you purchase through links on our ...

A powerful combination of data from two very different astronomical surveys has allowed researchers to build a "cosmic CT scan" of the universe's evolution. These snapshots reveal that, as forces like ...