Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once penned the words “If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe ...

Astronomers have turned the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) into a time machine to peer back in cosmic ...

Astronomers have achieved a first in exoplanet hunting by using the Hubble Space Telescope images to investigate a mysterious ...

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Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31 ...

Hubble’s Wide Field Camera 3 captured the star cluster Liller 1, a 30,000 light-year distant system that formed stars over 11 ...

Space telescopes like Hubble and Webb have dramatically changed the way we explore the universe, offering unparalleled views ...

A top a mountain in Chile, where the days are dry and nights are clear, a team of scientists and engineers is preparing for ...