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 ...

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 ...

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to ...

In the century or so since Edwin Hubble discovered that the Milky Way is just one of countless galaxies in the universe, our understanding of our home galaxy has grown in leaps and bounds.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ).