One issue is that when scientists calculate what the Hubble constant should be, it doesn’t quite match observations of the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The famed Hubble Space Telescope ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - November 20, 18898. From the Show Me State to the stars, Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble is credited with discovering that the universe ...

The Hubble Space Telescope launched in 1990 and marks 36 years in space later this month. Each year, NASA shares a photo taken by Hubble to celebrate the space telescope's anniversary. The photos show ...

In a world where new things are found all the time and technology is always getting better, it's easy to think that science ...

More than a century ago, in a quiet corner of the Harvard College Observatory, a woman sat for hours examining tiny specks on glass photographic plates. These dots, captured from the night sky, would ...

Spread the loveThe expansion of the universe has been a cornerstone of modern cosmology, raising profound questions about the nature of reality itself. For decades, scientists have sought to determine ...

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 ...

Nearly a millennium ago, astronomers witnessed a brilliant new star blazing in the sky—a supernova so bright it was visible ...

If we are located in a region with below-average density such as the green dot, then matter would flow away from us due to stronger gravity from the surrounding denser regions, as shown by the red ...

Over the course of human history, perhaps no single object in the night sky has drawn more attention than the Andromeda Galaxy, which the 10th-century Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi dubbed a ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt has introduced a bill to rename the post office on North Clay Street in Marshfield as the Edwin P. Hubble Post Office. Edwin Hubble, a Marshfield native ...