One of the most stubborn issues in cosmology today concerns the universe's rate of expansion. Scientists know it's expanding, ...

A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of ...

Do you know what connects Edwin Hubble’s theory for an expanding universe and Albert Einstein’s cosmological constant? The ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - November 20, 18898. From the Show Me State to the stars, Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble is credited with discovering that the universe ...

By studying how light from eight distant quasars is gravitationally lensed as it propagates towards Earth, astronomers have ...

More than a century ago, in a quiet corner of the Harvard College Observatory, a woman sat for hours examining tiny specks on glass photographic plates. These dots, captured from the night sky, would ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

IT IS ONE of the biggest mysteries in cosmology—and getting bigger all the time. Ever since Edwin Hubble, an American astronomer, published observations of distant galaxies in 1929, scientists have ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The famed Hubble Space Telescope ...

Historically, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) was a subject of extensive debate, initially considered a "nebulous smear" and later central to the "island universe" hypothesis proposing its status as an ...