Astrophysicists have put forward the idea that the Milky Way is in just such a void as an explanation for the Hubble tension, with measurements of local space suggesting that our galaxy exists in ...

Interest in steam world exoplanets really heated up in October 2024 when the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered the ...

“A potential solution to this inconsistency is that our galaxy is close to the centre of a large, local void,” said Dr. Banik, who presented the findings at the Royal Astronomical Society’s ...

About 5 billion light-years away from where you're sitting, in one of the most massive galaxies on record, there exists an ...

When people picture space, they often imagine endless black emptiness dotted with planets and stars. But new research shows ...

We have seen a few of these stars in our galaxy, and careful measurements suggest they’re moving away from the center of the Milky Way, which is pretty convincing evidence that Sagittarius A* ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the long-running Hubble tension. Galaxy counts reveal a sparsely populated ...

Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, hosts a 4 million solar mass black hole. Currently, it's not growing fast enough to blast out energy like a quasar, but we know it has done in the past, and it may ...

For more than a century, astronomers have watched the Andromeda galaxy, a massive swirl of neighboring stars, speed toward the Milky Way. And in recent years, measurements using the Hubble Space ...

A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur in about 4.5 billion years, has been anticipated by astronomers since 1912.

New study puts odds at 50-50 For this new study, the scientists relied on updated galaxy measurements to factor in the gravitational pull on the Milky Way's movement through the universe.