Our perception of our environment can deceive us. A map, although flat, effectively guides us through a space that, in ...

Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library via Getty Images Meet Quipu, a new contender for the largest known structure in the universe. It’s essentially a giant cluster of galaxy clusters stretching ...

The expansion of the Universe is not constant ... Our Sun is on one of the spiral arms as shown in the diagram: The Sun's orbital speed is determined almost entirely by the gravitational pull ...

This radiation is now used to 'map' the early Universe. The diagram below is a heat map showing that temperature was not evenly distributed. This is a whole sky Planck space telescope image of the ...