On the night of Oct. 5, 1923, Edwin Hubble observed a strange star that flickered in intensity at regular intervals. The star ...

The Hubble Space Telescope, a cornerstone of modern astronomy, has been providing breathtaking images and invaluable data for ...

Scientists figured out that the universe is billions of years old - after years of reading ancient rocks and dying stars, and ...

Astronomers have been confounded by recent evidence that the universe expanded at different rates throughout its life. New ...

Einstein expressed support for Hubble’s observations that the universe was expanding—an idea the famed physicist had previously rejected. Alamy/PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive On a snowy New Year’s ...

Origins -- Spaceship Hubble -- Hubble vision -- Planets -- Stars & nebulae -- Galaxies -- Black holes -- The dark cosmos -- Optical illusions -- Hubble's future ...

Over the past decade, two very different ways of calculating the rate at which the universe is expanding have come to be at odds, a disagreement dubbed the Hubble tension, after 20th-century ...

The team explores one of the greatest discoveries of modern astronomy - that our universe is expanding - and the new questions it raises about how the cosmos works. The team explores one of the ...

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On human timescales, the universe may as well be eternal. It’ll be here long after our species and our planet are gone, but ...

The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to calculate ...

For science-fiction enthusiasts, that’s a bit depressing. Space is big, and while the speed of light is incredibly fast to us ...