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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

In short, Edwin Hubble is the man who wiped away the ancient universe and discovered a new universe that would shrink humanity's self-perception into being an insignificant speck in the cosmos.

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

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 ...