Around 13.7 billion years ago, something collapsed. It fell outward into the nothingness that stretched in every direction, ...

The star and the planet it drags along with it were first hinted at in data collected way back in 2011 thanks to a chance alignment and a phenomenon first predicted by Albert Einstein in 1915 in ...

Rice’s Naomi Halas is the recipient of the 2025 Benjamin Franklin Medal in chemistry, awarded “for the creation and development of nanoshells — metal-coated nanoscale particles that can capture light ...

Previous recipients of the award include Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking, and Edwin Hubble. Professor Binney completed his D.Phil. at Christ Church, Oxford and has held a postdoctoral position at the ...

Lemaître showed how the equations in Einstein’s theory actually support the idea that the universe is not static but, in fact, is actually expanding. Astronomer Edwin Hubble confirmed that the ...

President Donald Trump revived his first-term push to build a memorial sculpture garden with an executive order on Jan. 29. The new action reinstates his orders from July 2020 and January 2021 to ...

Carnegie's Allan Sandage is awarded the Crafoord Prize for his "contributions to the study of galaxies, their populations of stars, clusters and nebulae, their evolution, the velocity-distance ...

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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper read by one of his ...