This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary, Albert Einstein, who deduced the universe could not remain stationary without imploding under gravity's pull. The rate of cosmic expansion is now ...

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, his ...

Edwin Hubble’s photo; Martellus’ world map; Copernicus’ diagram of the solar system. ... -Einstein's theory even had the greatest physicists of the time scratching their heads.