In the vast expanse of the universe, there are cosmic giants so enormous that they stretch our understanding of scale and ...

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...

Black hole cosmology "suggests that the Milky Way and every other observable galaxy in our universe is contained within a black hole that formed in another, much larger, universe," said The ...

This year, the Buck Moon follows Earth's aphelion, the point in its orbit farthest from the Sun, by just a few days, ...

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

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

A team led by the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics discovered the most distant known fossil galaxy — a relic of ...

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

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