We know that we live on a planet in a solar system in a galaxy in a group of galaxies. But what do we know about our location in the universe beyond that? Some astronomers would answer that we live in ...

One of the great unsolved mysteries of cosmology is known as the Hubble tension. It stems from our inability to pin down the precise rate of cosmic expansion. There are several ways to calculate this ...

Glance at the night sky from a clear vantage point, and the thick band of the Milky Way will slash across the sky. But the stars and dust that paint our galaxy’s disk are an unwelcome sight to ...

The name fits so well - Laniakea. It means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian, and now it's home. In the biggest sense of 'big picture' you can imagine. Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's ...

On clear nights, the Milky Way appears vast beyond imagination, stretching like a river of stars across the darkness. Yet modern astronomy has revealed a humbling truth: our galaxy is only a tiny part ...

Astronomers have mapped the Milky Way's position to the outskirts of a supercluster of galaxies, newly dubbed Laniakea, meaning "Immense Heaven". Michelle Starr is CNET's science editor, and she hopes ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new cosmic map is giving scientists an unprecedented look at the boundaries for the giant ...