Uranus has the craziest tilt in your Solar System. Its tilt is about ninety-eight degrees. That means its north pole is ...

The number of planets that orbit the sun depends on what you mean by “planet,” and that’s not so easy to define ...

"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...

Astronomers have characterized the largest ... in the Universe and how they impacted the evolution of galaxies. From decades of astronomical observations scientists know that most galaxies contain ...

From decades of astronomical observations, scientists know that most galaxies ... This is the largest radio jet ever found this early in the history of the universe. The jet was first identified ...

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

An illustration of the largest radio jet ever seen in the early universe twice as long as the ... to just be an unrelated nearby source and for most of it to be small. That made it quite ...

Quipu, named after the Incan system of knotted cords used for recording information, spans an astonishing 1.3 billion ...

“The filaments are the most massive structures in the universe, especially at the points where they meet, which are called clusters or superclusters,” Darling said. So how big is one of these galactic ...