Astronomers have discovered a cavalcade of monster galaxy superclusters, incredibly massive collections of galaxies and galaxy clusters in the universe. The most striking example of these 662 new ...

When was the last time we launched something into space, like a satellite, or a telescope? The answer is last weekend. Russia and Germany just launched an Xray space telescope. And in about a week, ...

Glance at the night sky from a clear vantage point, and the thick band of the Milky Way will slash across the sky. But the stars and dust that paint our galaxy’s disk are an unwelcome sight to ...

There are clusters of galaxies, and then there are superclusters of galaxies. In the local universe, the Virgo and Laniakea Superclusters reign supreme, the latter stretching some 500 million ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope -- among other telescopes -- have determined that our own Milky Way galaxy is part of a newly identified ginormous supercluster of galaxies, which they have ...

An international team of scientists led by astronomers from Tartu Observatory of the University of Tartu has discovered many superclusters in the universe, with the most prominent among them named the ...

A newly discovered supercluster of galaxies is so distant that astronomers say its light has been traveling for over 12 billion years to reach telescopes on Earth. But this cluster, named SPT2349 ?56 ...

The Trudeau government has unveiled the winners of a competition to form technology "superclusters" — a title that will guarantee the victors a piece of up to $950 million in federal funding. Thursday ...

The Liberal government’s plan to create 10,000 jobs by funding and promoting sector-based innovation “superclusters” is far behind schedule and is unlikely to create the promised employment gains, ...

Home, supercluster home. Astronomers studying the skies have found that our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of an enormous supercluster of galaxies that has been named Laniakea, which comes from the ...

A new study has revealed that our Milky Way is a member of a group of local galaxies interconnected within a larger supercluster made up of a myriad of other galaxies, all interlinked within a tenuous ...