The Hubble Space Telescope has provided the most detailed survey of the Andromeda galaxy, revealing new clues about its ...

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, ...

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from one of the Milky Way's satellite ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

Professor James Binney, Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford’s Department of Physics, has been awarded the Royal ...

Pinpointing a Milepost Marker Star that Opened the Realm of Galaxies At the dawn of the 20th century, astronomers faced a ...

Hubble's discovery of expanding galaxies confirmed the universe's vastness, laying the foundation for the Big Bang theory and ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...

Hubble Space Telescope mapped Andromeda, revealing a chaotic history shaped by mergers. A 2.5-billion-pixel mosaic shows 200 ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble unveiled a groundbreaking discovery that revolutionized humanity’s understanding of the cosmos.

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...