The suburbia of the Milky Way does not form a ball of matter with the center at its center. Rather, the mass around it is arranged in a wide, flattened form, which alters the sense of gravity back ...

A flat plane of dark matter beyond the Local Group may explain why nearby galaxies move away from us instead of falling ...

A sheet of dark matter lying beyond the boundary of the Local Group is responsible for this.

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Computer simulations carried out by astronomers from the University of Groningen in collaboration with researchers from ...

At approximately 100,000 light years in diameter, the Milky Way’s vastness and the broader, ever-changing dynamics of the cosmos defy any attempt to fully understand our home galaxy and its history.

This idea is called the big bang model—which is an unfortunate name because it brings to mind a cosmos expanding like an ...

The latest data release from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) includes observations revealing the internal structure and composition of nearly 5,000 nearby galaxies observed during the first three ...

A new photograph shared by NASA offers a peek at the breathtaking views seen from the International Space Station (ISS). The image shows off Earth's colorful airglow as well as two nearby galaxies, ...

The standard cosmological model (present-day version of "Big Bang," called Lambda-CDM) gives an age of the universe close to 13.8 billion years and much younger when we explore the universe at ...

A group of galaxies in our cosmic backyard has given astronomers clues about how stars form. A thorough survey using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has observed around 14 million stars in 69 ...