Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble, then an astronomer at Carnegie Observatories, opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way ...

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

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

One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...

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

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

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

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

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 ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable star in the Andromeda galaxy in 1923 revealed that the universe extends far beyond the Milky Way, fundamentally altering our understanding of the cosmos.