Hubble has captured extraordinary moments in our solar system that were never part of its original mission. From observing distant moons and asteroids to unveiling the mysterious atmospheres of ...

Credit: G. Busse (public domain) One of the first women to be a professional astronomer, Caroline Herschel discovered eight comets, 500 stars, and 2,500 nebulae in her long life. Moving from her ...

The Hubble telescope was designed to be the first space-based observatory, which could be serviced and upgraded while it remained in orbit. It was named after Edwin Hubble, the astronomer who ...

By the time Walter Baade and Fritz Zwicky began coining the term "super-nova" in the 1930s, Edwin Hubble and his colleagues ... Because the supernova "family tree" was laid out according to ...

This article was originally featured on The Conversation. A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American ...

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 ...

Astronomers have released the most detailed image of the Andromeda galaxy with new clues about its evolutionary history to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Edwin Hubble's discovery that our ...