The Quipu superstructure is enormous, spanning 1.4 billion light years – and it could violate one of our fundamental assumptions about the universe ...

Dark energy, the mysterious phenomenon that powers the expansion of the universe, may undergo periodic 'violent transitions' ...

And more is on the way. Alpha Centauri is currently 4.37 light-years from Earth, a relatively close distance from a cosmological perspective. Our nosy neighbor happens to be a triple star system ...

Precise knowledge of these structures is very important for cosmological research and the main motivation for mapping the nearby Universe. “If you look at the distribution of the galaxy clusters in ...