Scientists used Cosmic Microwave Background data to challenge our understanding of the universe's shape. Here's what they ...

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The universe is constantly expanding, and at the moment, researchers believe that the observable universe has stretched 46 billion light-years from its beginning 13.8 billion years ago. By measuring ...

The Boötes Void is one of the largest known empty regions in the observable universe, stretching roughly 330 million light ...

The Universe is big, as Douglas Adams would say. The most distant light we can see is the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which has taken more than 13 billion years to reach us. This marks the edge ...

WASHINGTON — Using data from NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP), scientists have identified an unexpected motion in distant galaxy clusters. The cause, they suggest, is the ...

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Back in 2018, a team of astronomers and astrophysicists measured all of the light in the history of the observable universe. Marco Ajello, an astrophysicist at Clemson University, led the team that ...

Astronomers using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescopes and other telescopes have performed an accurate census of the number of galaxies in the Universe. The group came to the surprising ...

This logarithmic view of the Universe shows our solar system, the galaxy, the cosmic web, and the limits of what's observable out to a distance of 46.1 billion light-years away. This view is only ...