Long before galaxies sparkled in the sky or stars took shape, invisible forces stirred in the early Universe. One of those forces—magnetism—emerged in ways scientists are only now beginning to ...

The Universe hides a gigantic structure invisible to the naked eye. Galaxies organize themselves into a network called the cosmic web. This cosmic web, the largest known natural structure, connects ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Simulations suggest cosmic webs, made of filaments of dark matter, stretch throughout the galaxy.

In an extraordinary leap forward for astrophysics, astronomers have achieved a momentous breakthrough with the first direct image of the cosmic web, a vast and largely invisible structure that plays a ...

The universe has just yielded one of its secret strings. A distant gas bridge, spanning millions of light-years across two old quasars, has been photographed for the first time. This otherwise ...