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

For one, scientists observe a "cosmic fossil" called the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The first light that was free to ...

The Earth might be near the center of a vast low-density void in space, which could explain one of the cosmos's greatest ...

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

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

New research presented at the Royal Astronomical Society's National Astronomy Meeting (NAM) in Durham suggests a ...

New research suggests Earth may lie inside a massive, billion-light-year-wide cosmic void, offering a possible solution to ...

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

The mystery of the Hubble tension has deepened with the startling finding that the Coma Cluster of galaxies is 38 million light-years closer than it should be. In recent years, trouble has been ...

More information: Daniel Scolnic et al, The Hubble Tension in Our Own Backyard: DESI and the Nearness of the Coma Cluster, The Astrophysical Journal Letters (2025). DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ada0bd.

The discrepancy is known as the Hubble tension, and new JWST data hasn’t done anything to ease it (SN: 7/30/19). The telescope took images of the same stars as the Hubble telescope and ...