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 ...

When night falls, you can stand almost anywhere in the San Gabriel Valley, look to the north at Mt. Wilson in the distance, and see the glowing lights of TV and radio antennae spiking into the ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.

In the early 20th century, Edwin Hubble revolutionized our understanding of the Universe by showing that its fabric was expanding. By the end of the same century, scientists discovered that this ...

The idea that the universe is expanding was first proposed by Edwin Hubble in the late 1920s and has been repeatedly backed ...

Einstein with Edwin Hubble, in 1931, at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, looking through the lens of the 100-inch telescope through which Hubble discovered the expansion of the universe in ...