A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was ...

Also in 1924, Edwin Hubble was able to show that the universe is composed of many galaxies, of which the Milky Way is just one. The Smithsonian's collections represent our nation's shared history, art ...

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 ...

It seems like almost yesterday that a teacher told me when I was very young, that the Milky Way was the very end of our ...

The Hubble constant is one of the most important numbers in cosmology because it tells us how fast the universe is expanding, which can be used to determine the age of the universe and its history. It ...

Building big telescopes on mountain tops is one solution, but Hubble offers an even better view. Named after Edwin Hubble, the US astronomer who in the 1920s showed through observations of distant ...

On January 29, 1931, the world's premier physicist, Albert Einstein, and its foremost astronomer, Edwin Hubble, settled into the plush leather seats of a sleek Pierce-Arrow touring car for a visit ...

Originally called the Large Space Telescope, the telescope was later renamed for astronomer Edwin Hubble. It was designed to ...

The parallel development of the Space Shuttle and the space telescope, which would eventually be named after American astronomer Edwin Hubble, resulted in design decisions that would pay enormous ...

Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National Geographic's global event series GENIUS ...