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

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

Astronomers suggest Earth may sit in a giant cosmic void. This could explain the faster local universe expansion, known as 'Hubble tension.' ...

Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...

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

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

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

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

Credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, M. Postman, P. Kelly Hubble’s latest portrait zooms into Abell 209, a colossal galaxy cluster 2.8 ...