At the Largest Scales, Our Milky Way Galaxy is in the Middle of Nowhere

A presentation at the June 6th AAS meeting confirms that our galaxy is inside an enormous cosmic void, the largest one ever discovered.

Cosmic Void "Pushes" Milky Way

Astronomers have discovered a giant cosmic void that explains why our Local Group of galaxies is moving through the universe as fast as it is.

Much ado about nothing: Astronomers use empty space to study the universe

An international team of astronomers reports that they were able to achieve four times better precision in measurements of how the universe's visible matter is clustered together by studying the empty spaces in between.