In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

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

"It looks like it has been through some kind of event that caused it to form a lot of stars and then just shut down” ...

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

Edwin Hubble authored a paper in 1926 that outlined the classification of some four hundred galaxies by their appearance—as either spiral, barred spiral, lenticular, elliptical, or irregular.

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

Panorama of Nearest Galaxy Unveils Hundreds of Millions of Stars On a crisp, clear autumn night, you can see the most distant object visible to the naked eye — the stunning Andromeda Galaxy, our Milky ...

A century ago, Edwin Hubble first established that this so ... galaxy that's between a star-forming spiral and a sort of elliptical galaxy dominated by aging red stars," said Weisz.