Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

Learn about the theory suggesting that the Earth sits inside of a void, which may explain why the universe appears to expand at an accelerating rate.

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to astronomers, Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be located within a ...

A team of scientists led by expert Raúl Jiménez, ICREA researcher at the University of Barcelona's Institute of Cosmos ...

Sep. 8, 2022 — Early in its history, shortly after the Big Bang, the universe was filled with equal amounts of matter and 'antimatter' -- particles that are matter counterparts but with opposite ...

The "Hubble tension," one of the most frustrating and lingering problems in science, could be solved if Earth and the Milky ...

Physicists working at the CERN particle physics lab said they detected a slight but significant difference in how particles ...

Fresh evidence claims that the Earth and the surrounding galaxy are suspended inside a cosmic void based on echoes from the ...

If you think about the Big Bang as an explosion, this tiny interval is when the explosion in volume occurred. Protons and neutrons began to form after about a microsecond (10⁻⁶ seconds).