If you want to pinpoint your place in the universe, start with your cosmic address. You live on Earth->Solar System->Milky ...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is expected to discover 20 billion new galaxies over the next decade. A total view of the Virgo ...

The map, which is based on distance measurements to 18,000 galaxies, traces the trajectory of nearly 1,400 galaxies within 100 million light-years of the Milky Way.

The Virgo Cluster is part of the Laniakea Supercluster which is thought to contain around 100,000 galaxies. This article was updated to include comments from Brent Tully. A smoothed rendition of ...

Surveys tell astronomers that our Milky Way is part of the Local Group of galaxies, which itself belongs to the Virgo Cluster — just one part of a larger supercluster. On even bigger scales, the ...

A new map of a giant group of galaxies known as the Laniakea Supercluster is giving scientists a revealing glimpse of our Milky Way galaxy's home in the universe. See it here.

Astronomers realized about 100 years ago that the Virgo Cluster and the Local Group, of which the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies are members, compose the Virgo Supercluster.

July 22 (UPI) --Astronomers have produced a new map of the Local Void, a large region of empty space surrounding the Milky Way galaxy.Scientists have known about the Local Void for some time, but ...

The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for “immeasurable heaven.” The discovery ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - The Milky Way galaxy resides on the outskirts of a massive, previously unknown galaxy super-cluster scientists have named Laniakea, from Hawaiian words for ...