Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours — but he couldn't have done it without a little help.

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 ...

Dr Edwin Powell Hubble, who lends his name to the iconic Hubble Space Telescope, was one of the leading astronomers of the twentieth century. Born 135 years ago today on 20 November 1889 ...

In the 1920s, astronomers thought that the Milky Way was the entire universe. Hubble's discovery revealed a much bigger ...

Yet, a century ago, its discovery by Edwin Hubble opened humanity's eyes as to how large the universe really is, and revealed that our Milky Way galaxy is just one of hundreds of billions of ...

The Hubble Space Telescope is named after Edwin Powell Hubble (1889-1953), a pioneer of modern astronomy who first established that the so-called “spiral nebula” was actually far outside our ...

Circa 1945: Astronomer Dr. Edwin Powell Hubble sitting in a chair at a desk reading a journal. A staff member at Mt. Wilson Observatory, he was the first scientist to offer observational evidence ...