Astronomers claim to have found new evidence supporting a controversial observation that our galaxy is residing in an unusually sparse region in space. If it's correct, it could rewrite cosmology.

The "Hubble tension," one of the most frustrating and lingering problems in science, could be solved if Earth and the Milky ...

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

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

There are new hints that the fabric of space-time may be made of "memory cells" that record the whole history of the universe ...

Celestial objects known as dark dwarfs may be hiding at the center of our galaxy and could offer key clues to uncover the ...

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Deep in the center of our galaxy, scientists believe a strange type of star may be quietly glowing—not from fusion like our ...

The earliest light in the universe has been traveling across space since just after the Big Bang. Known as the cosmic ...

A new discovery using the James Webb Telescope has implied we may live in a black hole. The telescope, launched by NASA three years ago, gives us the ability to take photographs of deep space with ...

Over the past decade, cosmology has been embroiled in a growing crisis. Fuelling it are observations, first made by the Hubble Space Telescope and later by the James Webb Space Telescope, that the ...

Right now, it looks like cosmology is at a tipping point. This has led to it gaining the reputation as the “concordance model”. But a perfect storm of inconsistent measurements – or ...