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 ...

On the night of Oct. 5 to 6, 1923, Edwin Hubble discovered a new star — and revealed the utter vastness of the universe. Hubble was looking at the cosmos with the 100-inch Hooker telescope at the ...

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

This was the relation that’s now known as Hubble’s law. It took a while to figure out what it meant, though. The first observational evidence for the Big Bang came in 1929, when astronomer Edwin ...

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