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

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

Whether or not galaxies merge depends on how strong the gravitational attraction is between the galaxies and whether the universe's expansion is more powerful than gravity. Gravity affects everything ...

Dwarf galaxies are emerging as one of the greatest challenges to modern astrophysics. A team of researchers from IAC are ...

A decade-long search led by Cape Town astronomers has helped reveal the true scale of one of the largest hidden structures in the nearby universe, confirming the immense extent of a colossal ...

Astronomers said in a statement that the enormous concentration of galaxies had long remained largely hidden behind dense clouds of dust and billions of stars in the Milky Way's disk, in a region ...

Astronomers from the University of Cape Town (UCT) – working with colleagues from Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (France), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia) and the INAF Osservatorio ...

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 blueberry in a pancake, new research suggests. An analysis of how galaxies ...

Earth’s gravity has a lot to do with what people think is up and what is down. Things fall down toward the ground, but that ...

Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the ...