On Nov. 20, 1889, Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. His 1923 observations of the Andromeda Galaxy and a Cepheid variable within it would vastly expand our understanding of other galaxies ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble began the race to the edge of the cosmos Damond Benningfield In 1930, Albert Einstein met with astronomers (including Edwin Hubble, at Einstein's left, back row) at Mount ...

A look at Edwin Hubble’s role in confirming that the Andromeda Galaxy lies beyond the Milky Way, helping expand our ...

For decades, astronomers wondered why most nearby galaxies are speeding away from the Milky Way instead of being pulled in by its gravity. New simulations reveal the answer: our galaxy sits in a ...

The local universe may be expanding more slowly than previously thought, scientists have found. The discovery, made in two separate pieces of research, could relieve one of the most troubling ...