A decade of observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced the sharpest and most detailed images of the Andromeda ...

How did a Cepheid variable star help Edwin Hubble prove the Andromeda Nebula was a galaxy? Roger Brady San Quentin, ...

Our galaxy may reside in a billion-light-year-wide cosmic bubble that accelerates local expansion, potentially settling the ...

Astrophysicists suggest our galaxy may lie inside a "cosmic void" - offering a new explanation for the universe’s conflicting ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

A cosmic void could be distorting how we see the universe expand. Sound from the Big Bang may hold the clues. According to astronomers, Earth and the entire Milky Way galaxy might be located within a ...

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 ...

In commemoration of Edwin Hubble's discovery of a Cepheid variable class star, called V1, in the neighboring Andromeda galaxy 100 years ago, astronomers partnered with the American Association of ...

Edwin Hubble would spend many cold nights at the Newtonian focus of the instrument, which was the world's largest telescope at that time. Now, nearly a century later, ...

That was the beginning of the real troubles for Hubble, named after famed 20th-century astronomer Edwin Hubble. By late June of 1990, the telescope's managers had realized to their horror that ...

My curiosity was piqued and I had to go learn more about the man the telescope is named after, Edwin Hubble, who is today's birthday boy. Skip to main content. Open Navigation Menu ...