The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known ...

On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe.

Edwin Hubble was an American astronomer whose groundbreaking discoveries in the early 20th century fundamentally changed our understanding of the universe. Born in 1889, Hubble originally studied law, ...

Though the universe is filled with billions and billions of stars, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has been trained on a single variable star that in 1923 altered the course of modern astronomy. And, at ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda ...

The Hubble law implies that the universe is expanding. NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, has been a vital instrument for exploring the universe for over three ...

The night sky has always been fascinating to me, but being that I'm a geek who gets overly excited about many many things, astronomy was always pushed back as something I'd tackle more seriously later ...

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 ...

Decades of effort led to the launch of the Hubble telescope in 1990, but the work was just starting. Here's a look back at the events leading up to Hubble being placed in orbit and the amazing ...

In 1922, American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble looked through the eyepiece of the 100-inch Hooker telescope at California’s Mount Wilson Observatory. There, Hubble identified Cepheid variables, a ...

Today he is remembered mainly because of a modern marvel, the Hubble Space Telescope, that bears his name. But in the first quarter of the 20th century, the handsome, self-mythologizing and brilliant ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A new building proposed in Cherokee Triangle is being designed with one of its most famous former residents in mind. The new building that would go on Highland Avenue would be named ...