That Rich was presenting the story of Edwin Hubble at the January 2025 AAS meeting was symbolic, for it was at the 33rd meeting of the AAS, a century ago on January 1, 1925 in Washington, D.C., that ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

How did a Cepheid variable star help Edwin Hubble prove the Andromeda Nebula was a galaxy ... The distance he calculated was well outside the bounds of the Milky Way as they had been recently measured ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighbouring regions of the universe, astronomers say.Their theory is a ...

Scientists have proposed a wild new theory at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham - ...

Astronomers suggest Earth lies in a giant cosmic void, possibly explaining faster local expansion and offering clues to ...

And Hubble's discoveries have spawned more than 21,000 peer-reviewed science papers. The James Webb Space Telescope , which orbits the sun, has captured much space news attention , but it ...

The Milky Way and Andromeda are part of a cluster of about 100 galaxies, held together by gravity, known as the "local group." For more than a century, scientists have known Andromeda is creeping ...

Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 346, a star cluster located within the Small Magellanic Cloud, which is one of the Milky Way's nearest neighbors at only about 200,000 light-years from Earth ...

Milky Way has 50-50 chance of colliding with neighbor galaxy by Crystal Bonvillian - 06/06/25 7:07 AM ET Astronomers believe the two galaxies may collide in next 10 billion years ...

But the only way to get to a new prediction about the eventual fate of the Milky Way will be with even better data.” DOI: Nature Astronomy, 2025. 10.1038/s41550-025-02563-1 ( About DOIs ).