New research suggests that a troubling disparity in the rate of expansion of the universe, known as the Hubble constant, may arise from the fact Earth sits in a vast underdense region of the cosmos.

Some of the most intriguing cosmological mysteries don’t involve strange objects like black holes or neutron stars. The best mysteries may not even affect our everyday lives, or leave gaping holes in ...

The Cold Spot area resides in the constellation Eridanus in the southern galactic hemisphere. The insets show the environment of this anomalous patch of the sky as mapped by Szapudi’s team using PS1 ...

Another scientific anomaly that once again has the potential to turn everything we know about outer space on its head is the Eradanus Supervoid. Also known as the CMB Cold Spot, the supervoid is an ...

Imagining the smallest of the small and the largest of the large in the universe can be a mind-bendingly difficult task. This awesome interactive graphic, that let’s you slide from an infinitesimally ...

Astronomers have detected the universe’s largest known cosmological supervoid in the Southern constellation of Eridanus. Spanning some 1.8 billion light years, the team remains mainly baffled as to ...