Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An artist's illustration of the Big Ring and the Great Arc near the northern constellation of Boötes the Herdsman. Astronomers ...

A mysterious ultra-large structure discovered in space may challenge our understanding of the cosmos, according to a new study The structure dubbed the "Big Ring on the Sky" lies around 9.2 billion ...

Astronomers have stumbled onto a structure so vast and so oddly shaped that it threatens to upend one of cosmology’s most cherished assumptions about how the universe is built. The “Big Ring,” a ...

The Milky Way galaxy in which our solar system lies may exist in a "giant void", where space is about a fifth as dense as the universal average. This is the conclusion of a team of researchers from ...

Astronomers have discovered a colossal cosmic structure that’s so big it threatens to undermine our entire understanding of the universe. The Big Ring spans about 3% of the radius of the entire ...

A new study from an international team of researchers suggests that the universe may be "lopsided", and it could be a huge challenge to our current understanding of the cosmos. The more we have ...

If humanity has learnt anything from the sci-fi genre, it's that the discovery of giant rings hanging in the depths of space rarely bodes well for us. Well, good news friends, because an astronomer ...

“The cosmological principle is like an ultimate kind of statement of humility,” explains James Adam, astrophysicist at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa, and lead author of ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...