Particular stars called Cepheid variables allow astronomers to determine distance, and Hubble spotted one of these within M31.

Last week, standing with the Bible skeptic Michael on the common ground that science affords, we continued to look to the ...

Earth and our entire Milky Way galaxy may sit inside a mysterious giant hole which makes the cosmos expand faster here than ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The famed Hubble Space Telescope ...

The Andromeda galaxy is also known as Messier 31. It is a spiral galaxy located about 2.5 million light-years from Earth. On ...

Take a deep breath: the universe is not just big it’s mind-bogglingly, practically scandalously huge. And it’s growing. A century ago, Edwin Hubble peered through his telescope and shattered human ...

Students and faculty at BYU’s Department of Physics and Astronomy understand the value of the stars, and they dedicate their ...

A new composite image of the Andromeda Galaxy is offering an unprecedented view of our closest spiral galactic neighbor.

However, although photons of light existed since the first second after the Big Bang, they could not yet shine across the universe. This is because the early cosmos was so hot that "electrons were ...

Evidence is mounting that cosmic dark energy, long thought constant, may weaken with time - potentially altering the fate of ...

Although the 1924 “Great Debate” ended inconclusively, Edwin Hubble took to the stars and precisely measured the distance of the Andromeda Nebula using Cepheid variables and a new powerful 100 ...

One of the main objectives of the Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, was to measure the size and age of the Universe, ...