For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...

Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an ...

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

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

At the recentRoyal Astronomical Society’s National Astronomy Meeting in Durham, England, groundbreaking new evidence was ...

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...

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

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, ...

Ever felt like you're living in the centre of a desolate wilderness, with everything speeding away from you...?

Earth may be caught in the middle of a galaxy-encompassing void, but there’s no need to panic. This may actually be the key to understanding how old the universe is and how rapidly it is expanding.