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 ...

For decades, scientists have tried to measure how fast the universe is expanding. This expansion rate is known as the Hubble ...

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

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 uncovered evidence that the Milky Way is not drifting through space alone but is embedded in a vast, flat structure of dark matter stretching tens of millions of light-years. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. An award-winning reporter writing about stargazing and the night sky. When will the Milky Way collide with the Andromeda Galaxy?

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

Using a novel technique that examines the motion of two nearby galaxy groups within their surrounding cosmic flow, an ...