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 ...

Baryon acoustic oscillations (BAOs) – the “sound of the Big Bang” – support the idea of a local void. Gabriela Secara, ...

Brown dwarfs are too small to sustain the nuclear fusion that powers most stars, so they cool and fade over time. But if they ...

A new study has proposed the existence of a new type of cosmic object that could be hiding at the centre of our galaxy. This ...

Astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope spotted surprisingly cold, dense hydrogen clouds embedded inside the Milky Way’s ...

A new kind of cosmic object could help solve one of the universe's greatest mysteries: dark matter.Particle Astrophysicists have proposed the ...

Dark matter is one of Nature’s most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to their supercomputer simulations. We know it’s real because its mass ...

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

Dark matter remains one of science's deepest mysteries. It makes up about 25% of our universe, yet scientists only observe ...

Are we living in a cosmic void? New theory suggests our galaxy sits in a giant hole warping the universe's expansion.

Astronomers have studied the globular cluster 47 Tucanae extensively, but still have many questions. It may have an ...