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 ...

It's the nearest Hubble gets to having to a birthday present. But this year, there's a second part to the present, because accompanying the image is a "3D scientific visualisation" - offering the ...

Why it's so special: This image of a spiral galaxy taken by the Hubble Space Telescope is a portrait more than two decades in the making. Like most full-color images of space objects, it's a ...

We can get a peek into that neighboring dwarf galaxy - which is only about 15% the size of our Milky Way - because of the Hubble Space Telescope. That galaxy is about 160,000 light years away.

(THE CONVERSATION) A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in January 1925, a paper ...