This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary, Albert Einstein, who deduced the universe could not remain stationary without imploding under gravity's pull. The rate of cosmic expansion is now ...

This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary, Albert Einstein, who deduced the universe could not remain stationary without imploding under gravity's pull. The rate of cosmic expansion is now ...

Space Week is Oct. 4-10, so here are some of NASA’s latest discoveries and why Edwin Hubble’s history-making photo, taken on this day in 1923, revolutionized astronomy. This image above is ...

Left: Astronomer Edwin Hubble. Right: German-born physicist Albert Einstein visiting Mount Wilson Observatory, California, which at that time operated the world’s biggest telescope, 1931.

Edwin Hubble joined the Mount Wilson Observatory team in California in 1919, ... It was quite the paradigm shift and, coming on the back of Albert Einstein's General Theory of Relativity, ...

The universe has always intrigued scientists with its vastness and mystery. Decades ago, in the 1990s, physicists began measuring the brightness of certain supernovae in innovative ways. These ...

The Hubble Telescope is named after Edwin Hubble. Hubble was born in 1889 in Marshfield, Mo. ... only a few short years after Einstein published his Theory of General Relativity.

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation.. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

To celebrate the Hubble telescope's 35th anniversary, NASA released some striking new images on Wednesday, including a bold rendition of Mars and a stunning photo of a moth-shaped nebula with a ...