This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week ... packing roughly the mass of the sun into a sphere the size of Earth. While nearly all of the stars in the Milky Way will one day ...

Was it merely a nearby “spiral nebula,” a swirling cloud of gas and dust within the Milky Way? Or was it something more? The answer arrived in the early 20th century, thanks to the work of Edwin ...

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100 years ago, Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help. If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when ...

On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

But 100 years ago, astronomer Edwin P. Hubble (1889-1953), working at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, made a stunning discovery: He calculated that a spiral nebula called Andromeda was ...

This discrepancy between model and data became known as the Hubble tension. Now, results published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters provide even stronger support to the faster rate of expansion.

Matter that enters an event horizon can’t escape back out. What’s the 3D region extending for a short distance out from the ...

Saturn’s rings, imaged here by NASA’s Cassini orbiter, are one of the solar system’s most reliably spectacular sights. But ...