Using data from the Keck Cosmic Web Imager, an animation has been created that "reveals a 3-D slice through a network of ...

The universe is soaked in weak-but-persistent magnetic fields. Despite decades of research, astronomers still aren't exactly sure where these magnetic fields came from. But new research suggests they ...

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct ...

Decades ago, astronomers estimated that “ordinary” matter (basically everything that isn’t dark matter or dark energy) makes ...

The cosmic web is part of the universe's large-scale structure. It is composed of dark matter, gas, and galaxies.

In an astounding first, scientists have detected dark matter in the cosmic web that holds our universe together.

A vast filament of gas stretching across the cosmos may help solve the mystery of the Universe’s missing matter. Astronomers ...

For the first time, astronomers have directly imaged the faint glow of the diffuse cosmic web that stretches throughout the known the universe.

The “web” in the cosmic web showcases the interconnection between the structures, but the distribution can be visualized as foam: galaxies are in the soapy water, the bubbles are the void.

The team used the Multi-Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) on the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.

A supercomputer's simulation of the cosmic web filament, flowing with gas and feeding galaxy formation. Image: Davide Tornotti/University of Milano-Bicocca/MPA Researchers compiled hundreds of ...

The vast, seemingly empty spaces between galaxies are not entirely empty. So what's in these cosmic voids?