Thirty-five years ago, the Hubble Space Telescope was launched into orbit. It's been sending back galactic data and images ...

the Hubble Space Telescope has transmitted endless streams of magnificent images, confirmed the existence of "dark matter," and helped track a vagabond black hole moving through the Milky Way.

Using data from space telescopes and other instruments, astronomers, cosmologists, and astrophysicists are able to deduce and ...

Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble, then an astronomer at Carnegie Observatories, opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way ...

Roughly 100 years ago, American astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that “spiral nebulae” were actually independent galaxies, located millions of light years away from us. He also figured out that ...