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 ...

But changing the name of the Hubble Law raises the questions of who should be honored in the naming of the laws of physics, and whether the IAU should be involved in any decision. An expanding ...

This law uses the also-eponymous Hubble constant to describe the rate at which the universe is expanding.

Now known as Hubble’s law, it marked the first observational support for the Big Bang theory. Barred spiral galaxy NGC 1300 is unlike regular spirals, whose long, sinuous arms start at their ...

Hubble's challenge Cosmologists characterise the universe's expansion in a simple law known as Hubble's Law (named after Edwin Hubble – although in fact many other people preempted Hubble's ...

How did a Cepheid variable star help Edwin Hubble prove the Andromeda Nebula was a galaxy ... This is now known as the period ...

In 1929, Hubble proposed that the more distant a galaxy is, the faster it appears to be receding from us, a concept that has become known as Hubble's law.

Astronomers are engaged in a lively debate over plans to rename one of the laws of physics. It emerged overnight in Vienna at the 30th Meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), in Vienna, ...

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 ...

The Hubble-Lemaître law describes the effect by which objects in an expanding universe move away from each other with a velocity proportionally related to their distance.

Who discovered the Big Bang? Astronomers vote at the IAU on putting Georges Lemaître's name alongside Edwin Hubble's famous law.

Astronomers are engaged in a lively debate over plans to rename one of the laws of physics. It emerged overnight in Vienna at the 30th Meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU), in Vienna, ...