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

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

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

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

The study, based on the analysis of echoes from the Big Bang, proposes that the void could be a major factor influencing the ...

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 ...

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

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

This unexplained difference is what we call the Hubble tension. "I like thinking of the Hubble tension as like when you were a kid at the doctor's office, and you got measured when you were a baby ...

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 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, ...