“It’s very exciting!” Hopkins, an astrophysics graduate student at the University of Oxford, told IFLScience. “I’ve been ...

An international team, including astronomers from Keele University, has performed a unique cosmic test to measure the mass of ...

What at first seemed a routine detection of an object travelling through the solar system soon turned out to be anything but.

The awe-inspiring distances of the cosmos are hard to visualise, so how can we be certain we are measuring them correctly?

Earth is floating in a vast void in space, according to new findings. Not only our planet, but the entire Milky Way galaxy could be sitting inside a mysterious giant hole in space, astronomers have ...

Jets are cosmic phenomena that could happen in a couple of ways. Now, researchers have found one larger than the Milky Way, ...

Sound waves 'fossilized' in the arrangements of galaxies across the Universe support the theory that the Milky Way galaxy floats adrift in a giant void in space.

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

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

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

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