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

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

Scientists have proposed Earth is in the middle of a huge void in space, potentially resolving the cosmic mystery known as ...

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

Voids are not exactly empty (actually, the missing matter of the universe is spread there), and lonely galaxies and small ...

It’s essentially a reverse Big Bang, which scientists have dubbed the “Big Crunch”. Using data from a number of astronomical ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than in neighboring regions of the universe, astronomers say.

THE universe will start to shrink in just 7billion years, a new study has claimed, upending the prediction that space is ever ...

We live in a world defined by inches, feet and miles (or centimeters, meters and kilometers, if you prefer), and it’s not difficult for most of us to ...

Matt Shakman has addressed Galactus' bewilderingly huge appearance and the hard-to-conceive scope of the behemoth as a threat ...

Far lighter than other ions collided at the LHC, oxygen (and neon) could tell us about conditions in the early universe.