"We showed that a void model is about one hundred million times more likely than a void-free model." Earth, its cosmic home the Milky Way, and even the very local region of universe around us could be ...

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Images of the cosmos, such as the James Webb Space Telescope’s deep space snapshot, make space look chock-full of stuff. In the grand scheme of things, it is, but all those stars, galaxies, planets, ...

Our universe could be trapped in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic void, according to new research by scientists at the University of Portsmouth. A team of astronomers have looked at the echoes left by ...

Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighborhood is packed full of planets, stars and galaxies. But scientists have long suggested there may be far fewer galaxies in our cosmic ...

"The 'missing' matter may truly be lurking in hard-to-see threads woven across the universe." Astronomers have discovered a vast tendril of hot gas linking four galaxy clusters and stretching out for ...