It wasn't until 1949 that the term "big bang" came into fashion. This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary, Albert Einstein, who deduced the universe could not remain stationary without ...

A nearly century-old offshoot of Einstein’s general theory of relativity may hold promise for solving the mysteries of dark ...

In 1920, astronomers Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis held a Great Debate. Shapley argued that the spiral nebulae were small and in the Milky Way, while Curtis took a more radical position that they ...

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 read by one of his ...

If we could go back 101 years, we would encounter a time when scientists still thought the Milky Way was the entirety of our universe. But, if we went back 100 years instead, we would find most ...

It wasn't until 1949 that the term "big bang" came into fashion. This was a relief to Edwin Hubble's contemporary, Albert Einstein, who deduced the universe could not remain stationary without ...

The term "big bang" did not become popular until 1949. Albert Einstein, a contemporary of Edwin Hubble, was relieved because he had concluded that the universe could not stay motionless without ...