In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small ...

It wasn't until 1949 that the term "big bang" came into fashion. This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary, Albert Einstein, who deduced the universe could not remain stationary without ...

On January 29, 1931, the world's premier physicist, Albert Einstein, and its foremost astronomer, Edwin Hubble, settled into the plush leather seats of a sleek Pierce-Arrow touring car for a visit ...

In the 1920s Edwin Hubble used the newly built telescope at ... for another form of matter or energy that acts repulsively. Einstein originally introduced such a force to his equations of General ...

The two keys to Edwin Hubble's breakthrough discovery were forged by others in the 1910s. The first key, the period-luminosity scale discovered by Henrietta Leavitt, allowed astronomers to ...

Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National Geographic's global event series GENIUS ...

It gets its name from UChicago alum Edwin Hubble, who was first to calculate the constant ... In the early 1920s, mathematicians used Einstein’s equations for general relativity to predict that the ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was ...

The release of the new Hubble image coincides with the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Andromeda by the spacecraft's namesake, Edwin Hubble, according to Live Science's sister site Space.com.

It wasn't until 1949 that the term "big bang" came into fashion. This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary, Albert Einstein, who deduced the universe could not remain stationary without ...

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images ...