On the first page, reporter Clark Kent, Superman’s alter ego, covers the launch of a new NASA satellite while onboard a space ...

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

The first major optical telescope in space ... on mountain tops is one solution, but Hubble offers an even better view. Named after Edwin Hubble, the US astronomer who in the 1920s showed through ...

The Hubble Space Telescope has captured two tangled galaxies, whose interactions have caused knots to form in the "queen's ...

Edwin Powell Hubble is renowned for determining that there are other galaxies in the Universe beyond the Milky Way, and for observing that the universe is expanding at a constant rate. Hubble was ...

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 ...

Photo: Andromeda nebula plate with Hubble's ... American astronomer Edwin Hubble began work at the Mount Wilson Observatory in California, which boasted the most powerful telescope to date.

On a long-exposure plate Mt. Wilson Observatory’s Edwin Powell Hubble lately found a streak of light which was subsequently identified by other telescope men as an asteroid, one of some 1,400 ...

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has unveiled a breathtaking close-up of one of the most dynamic star systems in our galaxy, located approximately 700 light-years away. The binary star system ...