Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be sitting inside an enormous, mysterious void—a giant cosmic hole making our universe expand faster right here than anywhere else. This unusual idea, ...

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 Big Bang.

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

Comprised of billions of stars, the Milky Way galaxy got its name because from our perspective on Earth, it appears as a faint band of light stretching across the entire sky.

In the background, the gassy, oblong Milky Way is visible. The Milky Way is seen edge-on, meaning that the photo looks across the galaxy’s diameter.

Euclid’s new Einstein ring. The Einstein ring that Euclid spotted is located in the galaxy NGC 6505.It is only a hop, skip, and a jump away from Earth at 590 million light-years away.

As seen from Earth, ... The farthest background galaxy is so distant that it must have developed in an early phase of the universe, which most scientists think is around 13.7 billion years old.

The Milky Way is our home galaxy with a disc of stars that spans more than 100,000 light-years. While the Milky Way is generally always visible from Earth, certain times of year are better for ...

The galaxy it encircles (NGC 6505) is around 590 million light-years from Earth. The background galaxy from which the light emanates, at 4.42 billion light years, is much farther away. That galaxy, ...