For years now, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has had its fair share of brushes with death. The groundbreaking observatory launched into low-Earth orbit 36 years ago, and it’s now been operational two ...

It's well established that the universe is expanding, but there's serious disagreement among scientists over how fast it's happening. Two of our best ways of measuring the cosmic expansion rate, the ...

Levon Pogosian receives funding from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada. The work described in this article was enabled in part by support provided by the BC DRI Group and ...

On April 24, 1990, humanity launched a scientific revolution. I mean “launched” literally: on that date the space shuttle Discovery roared into the sky with the Hubble Space Telescope nestled in its ...

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A Simon Fraser University cosmologist believes his team's new research may bring them a step closer to cracking one of science's biggest questions—the Hubble tension. The quest to determine how fast ...

Lensing in action: A montage of eight time-delay gravitational lens systems. There is an entire galaxy at the centre of each image, and the bright points in rings around them are gravitationally ...

Thirty years ago this month, the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope was trained on a tiny — 1/12th theapparent width of the Moon — seemingly empty patch of sky in Ursa Major. It took a series of 342 ...

Astronomers and cosmologists aren’t known for being incredible at adjectives. Take the Very Large Telescope, or the European Extremely Large Telescope, or even the big bang. But they weren’t wrong ...

When's the last time Michigan beat Ohio State five times in a row? These two powerhouses will meet for the 121st time on Saturday, with the first edition of ‘The Game’ taking place all the way back in ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - November 20, 18898. From the Show Me State to the stars, Astronomer Edwin Hubble was born in Marshfield, Missouri. Hubble is credited with discovering that the universe ...

Blue Valley School District teachers warned parents that the elementary school orchestra program could be eliminated due to budget shortfalls and schedule changes. February 19, 1992. Filmmaker John ...