The constant was first calculated by the US astronomer Edwin Hubble, whose name it now bears. Although the measurements have become increasingly precise in recent years, they have not provided a ...

Credit: Shutterstock For decades, astronomers have been trying to nail down the value of the Hubble constant—a measure of how fast the universe is expanding. But some cosmologists say there’s evidence ...

Highlighting 10 major astronomical milestones of the past century in celebration of the Royal Greenwich Observatory’s 350th ...

It wouldn’t be the last time Hubble would shift the paradigm. In 1929, he reported that all but a few galaxies are moving away from us, with more-distant galaxies moving faster than nearby ones. The ...

Ever since the dawn of civilization on this planet the bipedal animals human beings have wondered about the creation of this universe Science has been trying to unravel the mystery surrounding its ori ...

Astronomers have found a new way of accurately mapping the outer gas disk of the Milky Way using the positions of young stars ...

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is making waves again, this time for a snapshot of a spiral galaxy located 250 million light-years ...

Historically, the Hubble constant was introduced by Edwin Hubble in 1929, marking a major breakthrough in our understanding of the expanding Universe. Since then, refining its value has become a ...

This serene spiral galaxy hides a cataclysmic past. The galaxy IC 758, shown in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, is situated 60 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major.

Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A ...

Astronomers studied 10,000 stars in Hubble pictures to make this composite image and to learn about the evolution of the Milky Way galaxy. Light from our own galaxy is the most recently produced ...