Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

Earth and the surrounding Milky Way galaxy may be sitting inside a cosmic void—a "mysterious giant hole"—that could be ...

How did a Cepheid variable star help Edwin Hubble prove the Andromeda Nebula was a galaxy? Roger BradySan Quentin, California ...

Scientists have proposed a wild new theory at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham - Earth, along with the entire Milky Way galaxy, may be situated within a ...

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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.

Astronomers suggest Earth may sit in a giant cosmic void. This could explain the faster local universe expansion, known as 'Hubble tension.' ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation.. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...