Space. It's really, really big. How big is it? Well, according to astronomers, the observable universe is around 92 billion light-years in diameter, but that's all we can see (hence the word ...

Scientists led by a team from the University of Chicago recently released a study that mapped some of the largest known ...

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The largest known structure in the Universe may be even larger than the large we thought it was. A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona ...

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If you thought the cosmic web was tangled enough, think again. A team of astrophysicists recently used gamma-ray bursts—those spectacular, enigmatic explosions of energy from the farthest reaches of ...

Astronomers have discovered the largest and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe — a gigantic, 12-billion-year-old cloud harboring 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth's ...

Massive stars do not live long. There are several candidates for the biggest star in the universe. One of them, VY Canis Majoris, is over 1,500 times the width of the sun. If it were placed in our ...

Stars are the original nuclear fusion reactors. As it evolves, a star continuously fuses hydrogen, helium, and—if it becomes big enough—heavier elements, releasing the energy created into space as ...

A giant star that is still being consumed by a supermassive black hole may have caused the largest flare of its kind ever seen, astronomers say.

This December, the SciFri Book Club will read The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion by Sean M. Carroll. This Book Club season kicks off Monday, December 1, and you can read along ...