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Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together. The razor-thin chain of galaxies sits inside a much larger filament that appears to be slowly rotating as a whole. This ...

This Christmas, astronomers are highlighting a spectacular region of space that looks remarkably like a glowing holiday tree. Known as NGC 2264, this distant star-forming region sits about 2,700 light-years away and is filled with newborn stars ...

New images of interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reveal geometric structures that defy comet models. Explore why this mysterious visitor is baffling NASA astronomers.

Astronomers discovered a new moon of Uranus and hundreds of moons around Saturn over the past year, and there may be many more yet to be found ...

Astronomers tracking interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS reveal a far bigger story: a colossal, rotating chain of galaxies that may be the universe's largest spinning structure.

A team of astronomers has observed the largest protoplanetary disk ever seen circling a young star some 1,000 light years away. This churning expanse of gas and dust spans roughly 400 billion miles, 40 times the size of our solar system and extending ...

Our first contact with aliens could be with a civilisation in its final death throes, warns top astronomer Dr David Kipping, who says the first extraterrestrials we detect are likely to have this sign ...

Astronomers have finally captured a black hole twisting the very fabric of spacetime. This phenomenon, known as frame-dragging or Lense-Thirring precession, confirms a cornerstone of Einstein's general theory of relativity by showing that massive,