The name fits so well - Laniakea. It means 'immense heaven' in Hawaiian, and now it's home. In the biggest sense of 'big picture' you can imagine. Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's ...

We know that we live on a planet in a solar system in a galaxy in a group of galaxies. But what do we know about our location in the universe beyond that? Some astronomers would answer that we live in ...

The supercluster of galaxies that includes the Milky Way is 100 times bigger in volume and mass than previously thought, a team of astronomers says. They have mapped the enormous region and given it ...