On the night of October 5-6, 1923, Carnegie astronomer Edwin P. Hubble took a plate of the Andromeda Galaxy (Messier 31) with the Hooker 100-inch telescope of the Mount Wilson Observatory. This plate, ...

A hundred years ago, astronomer Edwin Hubble dramatically expanded the size of the known universe. At a meeting of the ...

A Distant Supernova Discovery This latest image from the Hubble Space Telescope features a distant galaxy located about 600 ...

A Triple Star System Yields an Unusual Surviving Star Unlike our Sun, which exists alone, at least half of the stars in our ...

Steve Fink is a longtime journalist previously serving as Vice President of News Engagement for CBS Local. Beginning his career as a sports producer at WJZ-TV in Baltimore in 2001, he served as ...

Hubble’s work pushed the field of astronomy forward, starting with his paper demonstrating that some objects exist outside ...