The Hubble Space Telescope has been surveying space since 1990 and has captured some interesting cosmic elements in action.

Explore the amazing journey of the Hubble Space Telescope and its successor, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). Discover ...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the universe is expanding 5 percent to 9 percent faster than expected. “This surprising finding may be an important clue to ...

An expanding universe complicates this picture just a little bit, because the universe absolutely refuses to be ...

‘Pursuit of the universe’s expansion rate began in the 1920s with measurements by astronomers Edwin P. Hubble and Georges Lemaître. In 1998, this led to the discovery of “dark energy,” a mysterious ...

Physicists have been puzzling over conflicting observational results pertaining to the accelerating expansion rate of our Universe—a major discovery recognized by the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics. New ...

Where is the center of the universe? Learn why researchers say the rules may not apply to the center of the universe.

The Andromeda galaxy helped Edwin Hubble settle a great debate in astronomy. Stocktrek Images via Getty Images A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known ...

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This image of NGC 5468, a galaxy located about 130 million light-years from Earth, combines data from the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes. This is the farthest galaxy in which Hubble has ...

In materials testing, we call that a strain rate. It has the unintuitive unit of 1/seconds, since strain is a unitless quantity (change in length divided by length). We often communicate it as ...

When you are trying to solve one of the biggest conundrums in cosmology, you should triple check your homework. The puzzle, called the 'Hubble Tension,' is that the current rate of the expansion of ...