In the early 20th century, our understanding of the universe was turned on its head when observations made by Edwin Hubble revealed ... posited by Einstein in 1915. A paper published in the ...

On January 29, 1931, the world's premier physicist, Albert Einstein, and its foremost astronomer, Edwin Hubble, settled into the plush leather seats of a sleek Pierce-Arrow touring car for a visit ...

When Einstein learned of Edwin Hubble's observations that the universe is expanding, he promptly jettisoned the constant.) Returning to the quantum, by 1919, six years before the invention of ...

Get a sneak peek at Academy Award-winning actor Geoffrey Rush and newcomer Johnny Flynn as Nobel Prize-winning physicist Albert Einstein, in National Geographic's global event series GENIUS ...

As a woman, she couldn’t use the observatory’s telescope. Rather, she studied photographic plates taken with Harvard’s Boyden ...

It gets its name from UChicago alum Edwin Hubble, who was first to calculate the constant ... In the early 1920s, mathematicians used Einstein’s equations for general relativity to predict that the ...

When we go backwards in time through the history of the cosmos, the distances and volumes shrink, while the average energy ...

A century ago this month, a brash astronomer leaked a discovery that opened our view to the cosmic distance scale and the ...

It seems like almost yesterday that a teacher told me when I was very young, that the Milky Way was the very end of our ...

In the 1920s, astronomer Edwin Hubble made two amazing ... This solution to Einstein's equation, together with Hubble's startling observations, tells us that we live in an expanding universe.