For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, a discovery that could relieve a pesky discrepancy ...

The Milky Way isn't just drifting through a giant void in space untethered, but is embedded in a sheet of dark matter like a ...

Two new studies have measured the expansion of the universe in our immediate cosmic neighborhood using a novel method that ...

A group of astronomers led by Evuda Wempe, a graduate student from the Kaptein Institute in Groningen, discovered a giant ...

An international research team has found that the Milky Way and its galactic neighbors appear to sit inside a vast, flat concentration of dark matter, a structure stretching roughly 10 megaparsecs and ...

American astronomer Edwin Hubble (after whom the Hubble Space Telescope is named) coined the term “Local Group” for the galaxies he had identified as moving through space with the Milky Way. The term ...

Astronomers have discovered a flattened structure of matter around the Milky Way that explains the unusual motion of nearby galaxies.

Using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) located in the Atacama desert region of Northern Chile, astronomers have revealed five ...