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

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble revealed a universe of galaxies that existed beyond ours. His influence in astronomy continues to this day.

The detection of life beyond Earth would be one of the most profound discoveries in the history of science. The Milky Way ...

On the other hand, the discovery of the universe’s acceleration shows the success of the scientific method. In 1929, astronomer Edwin Hubble found that the universe was expanding.

We're still refining it. In recent years, Hubble, along with others observatories, was a major contributor to the discovery that this expansion rate is accelerating and that was a surprise.

Full original reading on Techno-Science Dark matter, this "invisible glue" that ensures the cohesion of galaxies in the Universe, has long intrigued scientists, but a major discovery could help solve ...

One large Milky Way galaxy or many galaxies? 100 years ago, a young Edwin Hubble settled astronomy’s ‘Great Debate.’ Hubble transformed astronomers’ understanding of the universe.

An expanding universe of galaxies But Hubble wasn’t done. His second major discovery also transformed astronomers’ understanding of the universe.

To celebrate the 100-year Edwin Hubble discovery that Andromeda was a galaxy outside our own, astronomers release the most detailed Andromeda Galaxy image ever.

An expanding universe of galaxies But Hubble wasn’t done. His second major discovery also transformed astronomers’ understanding of the universe.