Earth, its cosmic home the Milky Way, and even the very local region of universe around us could be situated within a void of low density compared to the rest of the universe. If so, that would solve ...

Looking up at the night sky, it may seem our cosmic neighbourhood is packed full of planets, stars and galaxies. But scientists have long suggested there may be far fewer galaxies in our cosmic ...

Click here for a high resolution image. More than half of the largest galaxies in the nearby universe have collided and merged with another galaxy in the past two billion years, according to a Yale ...

"The overarching structure of the universe is the Cosmic Web, which you can imagine as a spider web, or a fishing net, in 3D. The basins of attraction are superimposed on this structure surrounding ...

With its powerful detectors, Integral has performed the most-sensitive all-sky survey ever, finding expected clumpy areas at large scales in our local universe. Scientists working with ground-based ...

Astronomers are spotting a new class of giant black holes that dwarf even the supermassive ones found at the centre of galaxies. Could there be some even more monstrous lurking out there in the ...

Our universe could be trapped in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic void, according to new research by scientists at the University of Portsmouth. A team of astronomers have looked at the echoes left by ...

AN Tairseach will host a hybrid event in person or online via Zoom later this month titled ‘The Story of the Universe through the Prism of Celtic Spirituality’ presented by John Scally. We live in an ...

The mystery of galaxies in the early Universe just got even weirder. A team of astronomers has identified a giant spiral galaxy so well-formed that it already has a stable galactic bar; a long, ...