Scientists have discovered a giant cosmic filament where galaxies spin in sync with the structure that holds them together.

Astronomers have uncovered a vast, razor-thin strand of galaxies that is not just drifting through space but spinning ...

Astronomers have observed enormous filaments of galaxies tied together with dark matter — the stuff scientists believe makes up 85 percent of the total mass of the universe — stretching across ...

Rotating razor-thin galaxy string found 140 million light-years away shows many galaxies spinning with their filament, hinting that large structures shape galaxy rotation. Cosmic filaments are the ...

From the first time humans gazed upon the night sky, people have wondered what might linger in the heavens. On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial ...

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Rendezvous Robotics plans to commercialize a technology called TESSERAE for self-assembling structures that could be used for large arrays or antennas in space. Credit: Rendezvous Robotics WASHINGTON ...

Aerospace undergrad Alex Kuehnle observes PhD student Ivan Wu in the composites laboratory at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Because it’s costly and cumbersome to transport large ...