Just about everyone has heard of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope — not too surprising considering that it has been with us for ...

Yet, a century ago, its discovery ... his legacy. The marvelous telescope made "Hubble" a household word, synonymous with ...

Anchoring measures of SBF to the TRGB technique allowed Tully and his colleagues to extract distances for galaxies from SBF observations previously made by the Hubble Space Telescope, out to a ...

Edwin Hubble shattered the astronomical boundaries of the 1920s by identifying other galaxies beyond the Milky Way and unveiling the universe’s expansion, igniting a new era of cosmic exploration. A ...

Over four months, March through June 1905, Albert Einstein produced four papers that revolutionized science. One explained how to measure the size of molecules in a liquid, a second posited how to ...

In his latest book, published this month by Simon ... that the Sun is located toward one edge of our galaxy, and Edwin Hubble in 1929 determined that the galaxies are being carried apart from ...

The event marked the centennial of Carnegie astronomer Edwin Hubble’s revolutionary discovery—announced in Washington ... Looking ahead, Mulchaey shared his optimism about next-generation ...

Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate is famous for having led to his ...

In fairness to him, he came up with GR before Edwin Hubble discovered the universe was expanding in 1929. In response to this discovery, Einstein retroactively removed a constant - now known as the ...

The photos capture both our neighboring planets and galaxies far, far away in a stunning release to celebrate one of NASA’s ...