This visualization presents a 3-D view of the largest structures in the universe. It begins with data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and zooms out to reveal data from WMAP.

Starting at an everyday scale, we travel by powers of 100 down into the shadowy world of strings. That is, we begin 10 meters away from an apple, then zoom 100 times closer to 10 centimeters away ...

When all these things are put together, it creates a web-like structure that is truly on a universal scale. If we were able ...

Ranging from the unimaginably small to the unimaginably big, the scale of the universe is mind-boggling. Watch to try to wrap your head around it. Produced by Alex Kuzoian. Follow BI Video ...

If we zoom out from galactic scales ... If like some looming deity we could project ourselves to see the universe at that ...

They hope that by finding patterns in some of these large-scale structures, tiny irregularities involving quantum effects in the earliest days of the universe might be revealed. IRA FLATOW: This is ...

How the universe will end is an ongoing debate among cosmologists, and outcomes vary depending on specific theories. A new paper analyzes the end of the universe in relation to a theory known as ...

Note: For a definition of unfamiliar terms, see our glossary. The fundamental particles of the universe that physicists have identified—electrons, neutrinos, quarks, and so on—are the "letters ...

Monkeying around: a study finds it would take 200,000 monkeys the lifespan of the universe to type out “I chimp, therefore I am”. (Courtesy: iStock/GlobalP) According to the well-known thought ...

Prof Jim Al-Khalili tackles the biggest subject of all, the universe, through a series of critical observations and experiments that revolutionised our understanding of our world.

Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to observe the 'inside-out' growth of a galaxy in the early universe, only 700 million years after the Big Bang. Astronomers ...