An electronic vote has been conducted among all members of the International Astronomical Union, and the resolution to recommend renaming the Hubble law as the Hubble-Lemaître law has been accepted.

PARIS — The International Astronomical Union has voted in favor of a recommendation to rename the Hubble Law the “Hubble-Lemaître Law,” in order to acknowledge the contributions of the Belgian priest ...

Georges Lemaître, a Belgian priest and scientist, first proposed the theory of an expanding universe in 1927, predating Edwin Hubble's similar work. The International Astronomical Union is considering ...

The Bank of England has announced that a scientist will be the new face of the £50 note. The note currently features the steam-engine pioneers James Watt and Matthew Boulton. But the bank has now ...

Astronomers are engaged in a lively debate over plans to rename one of the laws of physics. It emerged overnight in Vienna at the 30th Meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), in Vienna, ...